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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been following TIME very closely for the last few weeks in some hopes that I would find something of local interest that has attracted much attention and comment. Namely, it is the vote taken recently in Texas on two proposed amendments to the State constitution; one of them providing for an increase of the Governor's salary from $4,000 per annum to the appalling (decided so by the people of Texas) sum of $10,000, the other providing for some reforms in the Texas Supreme Court. However, both of these proposed amendments met with defeat...
...Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from...
Painful to hear were the protests U. S. manganese producers who charged that the Senate Republicans were favoring great Eastern corporations potent in politics. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham was one of the two Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount...
Round One. Cornered and isolated from the start, Chancellor Snowden said with a twisted smile: "If the Young Plan could be adopted by majority vote, I suppose it would be carried today, but fortunately adoption must be unanimous...
Last week the proposition was put to vote. It passed by the whelming count of 230 to 30, with 50 not voting through abstention or absence. Many of Dr. Weizmann's anticipated opponents-orthodox Zionists, Laborite Zionists, radical Zionists-submerged their separate complaints to favor the central issue...