Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...Passed a bill writing off as unrecoverable $2,500,000,000 (loans to railroads, banks, insurance companies and special State funds) from the books of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring up a first-class...
...heard the proposals roundly condemned by labor-men who fear restrictive legislation. But Dr. Copeland has succeeded best of all in turning his hearings into a rousing Red hunt. Indeed, he got so far afield that last fortnight his Committee voted out a resolution asking a special $50,000 Senate investigation of Reds on everything afloat, "merchant marine, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy...
...seamen for the current maritime unrest, Mr. Kennedy also blames Frances Perkins. His opinions of the Secretary of Labor are hardly printable. And with his Irish up he marched before the Copeland Committee last week to rebut Mrs. Perkins' previous testimony that the time was not ripe for special maritime labor legislation (see p. 13). Without mentioning the Secretary by name, Mr. Kennedy observed sarcastically: "I submit that if the maritime industry is not 'ripe' for conciliation and mediation of its labor disputes, then it is overripe for ruin." At one point Mr. Kennedy was so steamed...