Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House than they have ever had. Unhappily one of the complaints about Secretary Roper's regime was that he did not have the confidence of the left wing in the New Deal and hence was not as powerful in Administration policy as he should have been or as Mr. Hopkins would...
...Mr. Hopkins has had an unusual administrative experience in the Government. . . . Everybody hereabouts recognizes that the biggest job of the next 18 months is to get the economic recovery machine going. This means a meshing of business and Government action. If Harry Hopkins makes a success of it, and the business men feel he has accomplished something affirmative in the oft-talked-about but little-realized Government-&-business cooperation policy, it will be because the man now being suggested for the Department of Commerce portfolio will have brought left and right wings together in a practical...
When the advertisements appeared in Drug Topics two years ago, Congressman Patman did not bother to deny publicly the company's claim. Last week he denied it with heat: "McKesson & Robbins has never paid me in connection with anti-chain store legislation or anything else." Mr. Patman said he got his money from the Brady Speakers Bureau in Manhattan...
That the archfoe of the chain stores should team up with wholesalers did not strike anyone as particularly strange. Mr. Patman's bill to tax chain stores out of existence ($50 to $1,000 per store times the number of stores in a chain, times the number of States in which the chain operates) is due to come up in the next Congress, and chain store merchants have been worried for months...
...Berry lost his Senate primary race to Tennessee's Attorney-General Tom Stewart (of Scopes "monkey trial" fame). After Nominee Stewart had gone through the formality of being elected November 8, Senate Financial Clerk Charles F. Pace cut George Berry off the Senate payroll. Clerk Pace assumed that Mr. Berry was not a lame duck but a dead duck, that his tenure as an appointed Senator ended on the election of his successor instead of limping on until the new Congress meets (January 3) and regular Senators-elect are sworn...