Word: sibley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Payson Sibley Wild, Jr., assistant professor of Government, has been appointed Acting Master of Winthrop House during the first half of the academic year 1937-38, it was learned today...
Summoned to the White House for talks on "labor legislation" were three groups headed respectively by Mr. Lewis, President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. The Lewis group went first, stayed longest. At a press conference the President of the U. S. voiced his extreme displeasure with the president of General Motors. Waiving his usual ban on direct quotation, as he had done in squelching Mr. Lewis, the President struck out, this time not with a mild generality but with blunt specification. Rapped he: "I told them...
...preaching team arc such pious notables as Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife of the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Francis Bowes Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee...
Hobart College (Geneva, N.Y.) President Harper Sibley of the U.S. Chamber of Comerce ... L.L.D. President Alan Valentine of the University of Rochester ... L.H.D...
...been a sad commentary on legislative procedure under the Roosevelt regime. Early in the current session, Roosevelt sent a message to Congress seeking $600,000,000 additional revenue and presented the House with a proposal to levy prohibitive taxes on undistributed income. Despite the reasonable arguments of Messrs. Sibley, May, and Houston, the House held only perfunctory hearings on the bill. The 240 pages of legislation, embodying an entirely new departure in our theory of taxation, were at no time carefully scrutinized by House legislators. Mindful that it is easiest to mend political fences with federal posts, the Representatives yielded...