Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third day the Chamber doors were opened and the Senate met publicly to do its highest duty. The gallery was packed for this rare and dramatic moment in constitutional history. Eighty-four Senators were in their seats. Vice President Garner had stepped aside to let Senator Pittman preside. Three empty black leather chairs stood in a row below the dais on the Republican side of the Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre...
...Senators," intoned Nevada's Pittman, "how say you? Is the respondent, Halsted L. Ritter, guilty or not guilty? The clerk will call the roll...
...peace in an election year were most anxious to avoid. Thus last week, with Secretary of State Hull's acquiescence, Chairman Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee announced that by unanimous vote the Committee would drop the proposed permanent neutrality resolution and propose a 14-month extension of the temporary Neutrality Act, with a few minor amendments. Senator Johnson triumphantly trumpeted...
...week Japanese vote in a general election for a new Diet or Lower House, but Tokyo wiseacres agreed last week that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America might well take a rougher line with Japan was the loud thesis last week of Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senator, being about...
...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...