Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judiciary Committee was instructed to investigate any and all lobbyists, the sources of their revenues, the purposes of their spendings. Hollow-eyed Senator Morris, the committee chairman, the Senate's most non-partisan member, weighed the names of famed inquisitors, finally chose Senators Caraway (chairman. Borah, Walsh (Montana) Elaine. Robinson (Arkansas...
...year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota's Norbeck, Iowa's Brookhart, South Carolina's Smith, Caraway of Arkansas, Heflin of Alabama. Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, sat back and let his colleagues have their fun. Many a witness might have been dismayed...
...been rapid. Long a leader of the movement is the Transamerica Corp., holding company for the Giannini institutions. Of many similar organizations formed this year, largest until last week were the First Bank Stock Corp. (TIME, Sept. 2), now controlling 43 banks in the Minnesota-Montana region, with resources of $341,000,000 and the $370,000,000 Northern Bancorporation in the same region. But greatest of all will be Banker Rand's Marine Midland Corp...
...people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns the river bottom to the international boundary, that the state, not the power company will develop power there. In Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power possibilities of the nation to which the people are "not only indifferent but apathetic." He added: "It is an ominous tale as well to the 40,000,000 people marketing their products...
Straws show which way the wind blows. But when a strawstack is an indicator it tells tales of a wind that is blowing near hurricane strength. Last week 37 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana,?37 banks with over $350.000,000 of assets?were the strawstack at which the Northwest cocked an admiring eye. For the 3 7 banks were united in a great bank chain, headed by the First National banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis...