Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
...Snell said he was going to demand a Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
When these confident expressions got around to Minority Leader Bertrand Snell, he took the floor for a shot at the White House: "It seems to me . . . that the final analysis of his whole proposition is the President agrees he will spend practically the same amount of money as the members have decided they want to spend for the same purposes. If this is true . . . why does the President object to Congress earmarking the money and insist on reserving to himself the right to earmark it?" Another shot was added by Mr. Snell's New York colleague John Taber: "This...
George E. Pihl, of Brockton; Lester Tarnopol, of Cambridge; Leslie Silverman, of Chicago; Clarence B. Welch, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; Charles D. Brown, of North Vassalboro. Maine; John R. Snell, of Nashiville, Tennessee; Harry R. Cedergren, of Seattle, Washington; Edmond W. Hammer, Jr., of East Rutherford. New Jersey; Frederick H. Hammer, of East Rutherford, New Jersey; and Oliver D. Sledge, of Austin, Texas...
...proceedings. Then with the count three and two, John L. Dampeer '38 was walked, forcing in the winning marker. LOWELL (9) ELIOT (8) White, L., ss cf, Myers Carter, 3b ss, Demeter Knowlton, cf, p p, Litman Cornell, c c, Neumann Dampeer, 2b, lf 1b, Lee Warren, 1b 2b, Snell Cochrane, rf 3b, Amory Cunningham, lf rf, Wells White, R., p lf, Peterfreund SUBS: Conroy, cf McKay, 2b Pinansky, lf Sullivan...