Word: towners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEILE F. TOWNER...
Certain was the Bill to go to conference within the week. The House conferees would be: Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway, New Jersey's Isaac Bacharach (all regular Republicans) and John Nance Garner of Texas, Mississippi's James William Collier (Democrats). The Senate conferees: Utah's Smoot, Indiana's Watson, California's Shortridge (regular Republicans) and North Carolina's Simmons. Mississippi's Harrison (Democrats). The conference voting will normally be 6-to-4 for high rates. The conferees will become the final tariff writers. In dispute between...
...Putnam, sister of the President of Harvard University, and Mrs. Francis E. Slattery. They have organized "The Silent Women of America," whose purpose is to combat "the nationalization of children" through various forms of Federal welfare aid. Mrs. Putnam specified the Silent Women's opposition to the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act under which the U.S. gave States a $1-for-$1 subsidy for welfare work; the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution; and legislation for a U.S. Department of Education...
Natural enough was opposition to President Hoover's welfare plans from Massachusetts, which was the first state to reject the Child Labor Amendment, which consistently refused to accept a U.S. dole under the Sheppard-Towner...