Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief behind-scenes wirepullers, arranger of neat political compromises, legislative uncle of the New Deal. With the Executive department reorganization, wages & hours and taxloophole-plugging bills on the way, with the Supreme Court enlargement bill expected to produce such a fight that perhaps the Vice President's vote and certainly his influence would be needed, Jack Garner was slipping away...
...work. In the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown, Ohio sheriffs' deputies made their first serious attempt to disarm pickets who held possession of roads around the steel plants. Meeting one night in Youngstown while pickets under police guard were demonstrating in the street below, the Youngstown city council by vote of 6-to-1 granted Mayor Lionel Evans full authority to increase the police force and buy as much additional equipment as he deemed necessary to preserve order in the city...
...arrangement, no less than seven bills were introduced in the present Congress. Two have now merged into the McCarran-Lea Bill which would put the airlines almost entirely under the non-political jurisdiction of the I.C.C. This bill emerged from committee last week and is soon to face a vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending the potent Post Office...
Passed by a unanimous vote of both houses of the Illinois State Legislature last week was the Fitzgerald-Keane bill as finally amended after five years of agitation, two years' work by a legislative commission, the State Insurance Department and the Illinois Bar Association. One of the strongest State insurance codes yet enacted, the bill needed only Governor Henry Horner's signature to supersede all previous insurance laws in Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally...
Before his stockholders gave him a rising vote of thanks last week, Mr. Teagle gave his stockholders a valedictory thumbnail sketch of Standard's growth during his administration. Having already reported 1936 profits of $97,000,000, Mr. Teagle noted: "The basis of our business is crude oil. In the year preceding my election our interests produced 9,658,000 bbl. In the year for which you have just had a report our production was 206,356,000 bbl. In 1916 our share of the total world production was less than 2%. Last year...