Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission's Chairman William Augustus Ayres, requesting the Commission to investigate a "marked increase in the cost of living . . . attributable, in part, to monopolistic practices and other unwholesome methods of competition." The Commission promptly promised to deliver to the President "as early as practicable" a report which observers guessed would be part of the groundwork for new anti-trust legislation in Congress' regular session this winter...
Farm Bill. Main spur to the Senate Agriculture Committee was the antilynching filibuster on the floor, which could be ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
...land-was being extensively modified to the prospective advantage of private utility companies and, according to leaders in both Houses last week, was "still in the exploratory stage." Exploration was being conducted by the House Rivers and Harbors Committee from which Speaker Bankhead last week said he expected a report "sooner than anticipated...
Last week, their work done, the U. S. members of the Joint Investigating Committee were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied to the Fisher plant, there to face the men who had threatened to turn a fire hose...