Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative...
1) A power in the grain commission and export business (he headed the U. S. Food Administration Grain Corp. during the War);
In effect supporting the private grain commission men, the chamber's agricultural committee declared: "The Chamber advocates cooperative marketing . . . only in so far as they are not discriminatory against other private enterprise. ... It is of vital importance to the preservation of private capital investments in storage and other physical...
." In the Senate, northwestern Senators swung to the support of the Federal Farm Board, flayed the private commission men as "gamblers." A rush of denials of trouble flowed from Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge, Mr. Barnes, Chicago and Minneapolis grain men. From the White House came a broad hint that...
Last week Chairman Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. of America appeared as a witness before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In one word he approved a bill by Senator Couzens to create a Federal Communications Commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission; in many words he pleaded for two...