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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: As a result of reading your article on Charles Phelps Taft [TIME, Aug. 3];, may we be among the first to cast two votes of admiration for a real American-who keeps both feet on the ground, and through clear thinking and action has brought about a greater measure of right and justice for people and institutions within his sphere of influence...
...Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee dropped everything and flew to Washington to attend. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau drove around to the White House. They all had breakfast together. Afterwards they emerged, gave the official result of their conference to the Press. It was in the form of a letter from Secretary Morgenthau to the President...
...significant with the formation of Conkling's clique known as the "Stalwarts" which bitterly opposed every move of Elaine's following, the "Half Breeds, twice prevented Elaine from receiving the Republican nomination for President. This celebrated personal feud officially ended when Conkling, aged 59, died as a result of overexertion while making his way up Manhattan's Broadway during the Great Blizzard of March...
...Second result was that, in prompt accord with Gresham's Law (bad money drives out good), nobody paid for anything in "real" money if he had Aberscrip to spend...
...result, according to the indictment, was that large sums of money were arbitrarily extracted from jobbers. Furthermore it was specifically charged that the defendants were still attempting to stabilize prices by taking ''distress" (i. e., excess) gasoline off the market, particularly in the East Texas fields...