Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prevention of War, was the first opponent of the Big Navy bill heard by the Committee. The N. C. P. W. takes in about $150,000 a year, spends some of it trying to defeat "strong defense" advocates for Congress, including the Committee's Chairman Carl Vinson, who introduced the Big Navy bill. Said Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building program on the part of the United States will intensify international tensions...
...Britain already bound by the 1936 Naval Treaty and two of the "democracies" which Franklin Roosevelt has intimated may eventually have to take the totalitarian powers over their knees. In response to direct questioning, Admiral Leahy had denied point-blank the existence of such an agreement. So had Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull. At the week's beginning, Senator Johnson had declared himself entirely satisfied. Suddenly he changed his mind, stormily asked Mr. Hull for a further definition of foreign policy. Said he, on the Senate floor...
Later on, when Major General Johnson Hagood, retired, testifying before the House Committee, again lamented the absence of a clear statement of naval policy, Chairman Vinson interrupted with a reply that to some extent at least served to quiet fears that the Navy was to be used to help England police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection...
Leading Congressional tax authority is Representative Fred Vinson, a 48-year-old statistically-minded Kentuckian who has made taxation his legislative hobby. He is the driving force behind the new bill but it will be his last, for President Roosevelt has rewarded him with a $12,500 seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
Only other officials who speak the same language as Messrs. Vinson, Beaman & Parker are the Treasury's tax experts. Most of them are better versed in the application of their recondite science than in its theory. But it so happens that the man who knows more about the theory of Federal taxation than anyone in Washington is Under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Foster Magill. And the new tax bill is at least his stepchild if not his own baby...