Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoosier who, when he was elected in 1929, became the first member of the House Press Gallery to descend from it to the floor. The Ludlow Anti-War Resolution, introduced three years ago, has been held up ever since by the House Judiciary Committee which had by last week almost forgotten its existence. Of the 218 signatures he needed to get the measure to the floor, Representative Ludlow has had 200 or so for several months. Mr. Ludlow found, in the congressional reaction to the Panay sinking, a chance to get the dozen or sa additional signatures he needed...
...League of Nations supporter, received a neat kick in the pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member of the League, almost before the Delbos train chugged away from Belgrade, Vreme, semi-official newsorgan of Premier Stoyadinovich, boasted that "all mention of the League of Nations was deliberately omitted" in the Premier's banquet toast to Minister Delbos...
Brendan Bracken, another leading House of Commons member of the "ginger group"-M. P.s in their middle 303, many of whom have business interests in The City-recently visited the U. S. to judge for himself of President Roosevelt and the economic situation. Among several London newsorgans in which energetic Brendan Bracken has an interest is the Financial News. Last week none of his friends needed to be told who had written for this London paper "HOW TO CREATE A DEPRESSION-President Roosevelt's Recipe-By a Correspondent." Ex- cerpts: "Mr. Roosevelt, like most vocal humanitarians, is a great...
...service in a big way but also was among the first to realize that such service should be divorced from the underwriting and commission business. And last week Chas. D. Barney & Co. had the distinction of having its senior partner, John W. Hanes, named as the first Stock Exchange member appointed to the SEC (see p. 53). Founder Barney, now 94 and long since retired, lives outside Philadelphia but two of his grandsons are in the firm, as is a great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish. As old Mr. Barney approached 50 another firm...
Simultaneously the Exchange announced the findings of a similar committee appointed to investigate raising brokerage commissions. It recommended a general 10.8% upping of commission rates for nonmember trading. 5% for member trading, odd-lot trading to remain as is. To reach these conclusions had taken the committee and its predecessors some 35 months since the subject was first broached by the Exchange on Jan. 9, 1935. Noting this fact and the simultaneous appointment of a new committee, the New York Times dryly commented: "The precedent can hardly be overlooked. Nov. 9, 1940 is the logical date for the report...