Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piqued, the Conference Secretariat produced a letter signed by Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull apparently authorizing the 10% tariff slash proposal. Faced with this, Senator Pittman insisted that it was "unofficial." To a Dutchman a signature is final. Chairman Colijn told the Economic Committee that the U. S. proposal had been made, left the entire Conference up in the air as to what Washington's tariff policy might...
...after Ambassador Bingham's open-ing-wedge speech, Secretary of State Hull sailed for London determined to negotiate a program of reduced tariffs, stabilized currencies and a general increase in world prices. Other conference delegates aboard the "President Roosevelt" with him were Nevada's Senator Pittman, Tennessee's Representative McReynolds and Texas' Ralph Morrison. Later in the week Delegate James Middleton Cox departed on the Olympic, declaring: "If the world is sick enough to have gained any sense, the Conference will be a success...
Islanders who continued to hope they would be appointed Governor of Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...
...heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed at Rocky Mount...