Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dissension put aside, every Democratic face beamed friendship. Senator King, head of the subcommittee which drafted the vehement report which recommended that the President's Court Bill be rejected so overwhelmingly that no similar proposal would ever be made "to the free representatives of the free people," came and put his arm affectionately round Alben Barkley's shoulder. Senator Pat Harrison, defeated by one vote for the post which Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate...
...report of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mound Bayou. Miss., TIME [July 26] refers to "what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad...
Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, plans a committee junket this fall into the farm hinterlands to study conditions first hand, then report a bill for enactment next session. Therefore, when he learned that Messrs. Bilbo and Black had 40 names on their petition Cotton Ed stormed into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced...
...foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting up of a national mixed commission composed of company, labor, and Government representatives to adjudicate all disputes...
...pesos and 4) on Jan. 1, 1937 the reserves and surpluses of the companies totaled more than $21,000,000. "The principal foreign petroleum companies form great American and British trusts and their interests have often been far from and even on occasions opposed to Mexican national interests," the report concluded, adding the specific charge that Shell subsidiary, Aguila, has "monopolistic tendencies...