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Waiting for his fellow committeemen to set aside a Rainey day, Chairman Keller last week showed newshawks the collection. Said...
...each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city leaders conducted last summer and again in a recent poll of precinct committeemen in Iowa, two men were overwhelmingly favored for the Presidential nomination. No. 2 man on each poll was Frank Knox. No. i man was William Edgar Borah. But Mr. Borah is a man more likely to get a Republican Presidential nomination when it does not mean anything than when...
...Thoughts, With such tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were...
...North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...opposed to the Eccles bill, should change it, his Senate subcommittee on Banking & Currency was packed with friends of the New Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles' friends to compromise, bit by bit got the bill changed...