Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans' viewpoint the particular hero of last week's Bonus activities was New Jersey's Republican Representative Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach. In 1915 Mr. Bacharach went to Congress from Atlantic City. With his father he had prospered in the retail clothing trade, gone into real estate, lumber and banking when Atlantic City began booming as a resort, became a local tycoon. Seniority of service advanced him to the No. 3 majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain." A mixer...
Last week Andrew William Mellon again unsheathed a sharp economic sword against Soviet Russia. He forbade any lumber or any pulpwood from four great areas of North Russia to enter...
...spruce forests, U. S. Commissioner of Customs Frank Xavier Alexander Eble refused to reveal. Unable to investigate conditions for itself the Treasury had obviously accepted as substantial proof affidavits from independent observers, labor camp refugees, casual visitors. Under the Treasury's order an importer can bring in Soviet lumber and pulpwood only if he establishes by a preponderance of evidence that these commodities are produced by free labor-an almost impossible requirement...
...placing an embargo on Soviet lumber and pulp wood imported into this country because of the rumors of conscript labor, the United States is again assuming the attitude of dictating world ethics. However, due to the vagueness of the reports from Russia, one may wonder whether the Government's motives are as pure as they supposedly were in the Liberia scandal...
...vague rumors of atrocities in northern lumber camps have not been well authenticated, and probably sound no worse to us that the actual reports of the hungry unemployed sad business-stagnation in this country appear to Russia...