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Bright & early next morning a dozen House and Senate leaders filed into the White House offices to talk War Debts with the President. At his elbow during the two-hour conference were Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary Mills. Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Ways & Means Chairman Collier and Senators Harrison and George represented the Democracy in Congress. Eminent Republicans included Minority Leader Snell, Representatives Hawley. Treadway and Bacharach of Ways & Means and Senators Watson and Reed...
...Lynn E. W'olfe, onetime auditor of Joseph Pulitzer's estate, and Murray Olf, stock promoter. They were charged with mulcting investors in Southern Cities Supply Corp. of $1,700,000. An unexpected witness against them in Federal Court was Illinois' white-maned Representative Henry Thomas Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House. Democrat Rainey's story...
...worth $33. He was told the company was building a great brick kiln at Birmingham. After a 20? dividend had been declared he bought 300 more shares. Said he: ''The proposition was so appealing to me I fell for it promptly." Soon thereafter dividends ceased, Representative Rainey...
...Idaho's Borah: "I'm opposed." Oregon's McNary: "I'm against." Mississippi's Harrison, Tennessee's McKellar, Georgia's George (in close harmony) : "We're opposed." Wisconsin's La Follette (solo) : "I'm not for." Democratic House Leaders Rainey, Collier and Byrns: "We're against." Last week it seemed very doubtful if even the combined efforts of Messrs. Hoover and Roosevelt could move such a mountain of Congressional opposition. ¶ The 1933 deficit is mounting at the rate of $5,000 per minute. It now stands close...
...beer-for-revenue outlook is better in the House than in the Senate where such Dry die-hards as Texas' Sheppard and Idaho's Borah can blockade action by talk. House Democrats who have announced their readiness to promote a quick beer vote include Majority Leader Rainey, Chairmen Collier of Ways & Means, Byrns of Appropriations, Pou of Rules...