Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ?Owen Josephus Roberts...
...Democrat Owen D. Young's testimony on the Bonus fortnight ago convinced Congressman Bacharach that it was politically necessary for the Republicans to act. Adopting the "Young Plan" of increased loans but rejecting the proposal to limit them only to needy veterans, he drafted H. R. 17054, got it by the Ways & Means Committee (17-to-4) to the House floor where Speaker Longworth helped him to pass it by a suspension of the Rules...
Then, as a final witness, Ways & Means Chairman Hawley put on the stand Owen D. Young, confident that that tycoon would merely reiterate the business world's objections to any form of certificate payments at this time. But Mr. Young did not perform as expected. Like his banking friends, he did oppose a big bond issue to pay off the Bonus on the grounds that: 1) such an issue probably could not be sold; 2) savings necessary for business recovery would be absorbed otherwise; 3) "we should end worse off than we began." Unlike his associates, however, Democrat Young favored...
...original. The idea of upping Bonus loans was advocated last month by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau as the "least undesirable" plan for aiding the jobless ex-soldiery. Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans' Committee had suggested much the same thing months prior to Director Hines. But because Owen D. Young is Owen D. Young, a man of great personal and financial prestige, credit for the Bonus loan idea continued to accrue...
Engaged. Philip Young, second son of Board Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co., student at St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y. (whence his father was graduated); and his friend since childhood, Faith Adams of Washington and Dallas...