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...said he would (TIME, June 23), President Hoover last week signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. To write the necessary 13 brief words he used six gold pens, which he presented to the conferees on the bill: Senators Smoot, Watson, Shortridge, and Congressmen Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach. During the ceremony, from which photographers, newsgatherers and cinemen were excluded, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, four of the conferees, Collector of Customs Francis X. A. Eble and the President's three private secretaries, stood by at solemn attention...
Outside Congress: In Washington he rents a comfortable old-fashioned house at 1822 19th Street, K.W. He avoids most social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick coupe, also maintains a Cadillac, a Negro chauffeur. From his luxurious Stamford residence, he golfs at the Wee Burn, Suburban, or Woodway country clubs, takes much interest in the town's Ferguson Library, the Children's Home. He likes the theatre and concerts...
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...
Last week, Secretary MacDonald wrote another letter, this time to Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, rebuking him for declaring in favor of John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut for Vice President. Secretary MacDonald gave the impression that Governor Fuller wanted to be Vice President...
When Governor Fuller heard about it, he explained to Representative Treadway: "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters. I must tell him to restrain his boyish enthusiasm...