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Just 53 weeks before President Harriman had wrung his hands before a House Committee, imploring the Government to save business from their own cupidity. "I should be perfectly willing, speaking for myself and not for the Chamber," said Mr. Harriman then, "to see an amendment to the Constitution which gave for a period of two years the right to the President to exercise great power and regulation over industry and business." Last week President Harriman cheerfully admitted that the Chamber had been formulating plans for regulating industry and agriculture as far back as 1931. What the Chamber had not originated...
...Carr's sorrowful story wrung the hearts of the House committee, but what could be done? The "gag" rule adopted last month prevented any extra appropriation being added to any bill (TIME, Jan. 22). To the rescue went Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Preparing a special relief bill, he notified newshawks: "You can inform our foreign service people for me that help is coming to them-and very soon...
...director, cast, sets and costumes. Since she was acting in Hollywood in Universal's Only Yesterday, names and sketches were submitted to her by mail, telephone and telegraph. After a false start on the road and the addition of $50,000 worth of scenery and costumes, the Shuberts wrung their hands and announced "a new policy of hiring the best talent, like Florenz Ziegfeld himself." When the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies opened last week in Manhattan, the Shuberts' name was not on the program. But it was not needed, for the opening occurred not at the New Amsterdam...
...proposal had been scrapped by the Conference, Senator Pittman kept open house in his hotel suite for delegates of silver nations, worked furiously to get them to sign a "memorandum of agreement" to steady the world price of silver as a commodity. During a hectic day & evening he finally wrung signatures from delegates of seven other nations, the last to sign (just before midnight) being China's owl-eyed Dr. W. W. Yen. "This," cried perspiring Senator Pittman, "is the most dramatic moment of my life...
Each capitalist group would be a chartered company, like the famed East India Co. which wrung so much wealth from Indian natives between the reigns of Charles II and William IV. To make the proposition more attractive Premier Lyons is willing to let the half-million square miles on hundred-year leases exempting the chartered companies from Australian duties, land taxes and income tax for that period...