Word: tation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose his week-end visitor, Charles Gates Dawes...
...reforestation amendment was car ried by an ample majority over the Smith objections. Interpreters rushed forward to claim this result as a personal triumph for Governor Roosevelt over Mr. Smith. "Oh, get out!" joshed the Governor at this suggestion. Small though the refores tation issue was, however, it did serve to remind people that Mr. Smith had yet to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy. The best guess was that Mr. Smith was dissatisfied with Governor Roosevelt's Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that...
...Hills conservation committee, of the Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without the support of "Judge" Reiter, the Wilbur plan could admittedly get nowhere - and "Judge" Reiter, an "oil oyster" (i. e., an operator who takes the threat of government dic tation as so much salt water), was not quick to give his support. Lyons Act. Last year the California legislature passed the Lyons Act, designed to limit oil production indirectly by limiting the production of the natural gas which .forces the oil to the surface. The state's efforts...