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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debts Week | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: $7,500 Brick | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: $7,500 Brick | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Two at a Table | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Beer-For-Revenue? | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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