Word: mcfadden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commerce, submitted to President Coolidge a legislative program in the interest of his businessmen friends. He urged: ratification of the Berenger-Mellon French debt agreement, reduction of corporation income taxes, early enactment of the McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill...
Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
With Bernard McFadden and "I Confess" forging rapidly into the financial leadership of Periodical Row, the "quality magazines", as Leon Whipple describes them in Survey Graphic, have been forced to reorganize and to adopt new taedes. The revolution has been on the whole successful from every point of view; the Atlantic Monthe Harper's and Scribner's have emerged from the fray with larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness...
Died. George H. McFadden, 79, for half a century the "guiding spirit of U. S. cotton trade"; in Philadelphia. The New York Cotton Exchange closed for two minutes in memoriam...
...certain U. S. bankers, who predicted a fortnight ago* that five or six branch banking institutions would control banking in this country foreseen last week's news, they might have been even more vigorous in their condemnation of the McFadden branch banking bill and its Hull amendments...