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...electric companies a majority of its stock, and in return received from them patent rights and manufacturing facilities essential to the production of radio sets. Although David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp., called upon President Hoover, presumably in connection with the transaction. and although Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Washington demanded an inquiry by the Department of Justice, the connection between General Electric, Westinghouse and Radio Corp. has long been obvious. The significance of the deal lay in the growth of the General Electric Westinghouse interest into an actual control, and in the future of Radio Corp...
Congressman LaGuardia was joined by Representative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, No. 1 Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, in the minority view that "the evidence would justify a resolution of impeachment...
These facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced...
Because Herbert Clark Hoover was nominated there for the Presidency in 1928, Kansas City, Mo., 19th U. S. city, felt a certain obligation to the G. 0. P. Its voters gave Hoover a 30,000 majority in the election, replaced a Democrat with a Republican in Congress. Last week Kansas City gave evidence that it considered its obligation discharged. Its voters elected Democrat Bryce B. Smith, baker, mayor over Republican George E. Kimball, lawyer, a solid Democratic city council, two Democratic municipal judges...
Parenthetically Democrat Young laid down the economic dogma that "tariffs and other petty political barriers" are definitely pernicious. "Let no man think," cried Economist Young, "that the living standards of America can be permanently maintained at a measurably higher level than those of other civilized countries. Either we shall lift theirs to ours or they will drag ours down to theirs...