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...obsolete" nitrate plant; 5) a capable board of managers believing in government operation could not be found; 6) the Government would be competing with its citizens. To take the sting out of his veto President Hoover suggested that Alabama and Tennessee as the two states primarily concerned name a joint commission with "full authority to lease the plants at Muscle Shoals in the interest of the local community and agriculture generally." The Senate sustained (34-to-49) the veto after the President had been roundly abused on the ground that he made Muscle Shoals into a "gold brick" and then...
...John Dewey, William James lecturer at Harvard, and professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, of Columbia University, has consented to speak on an undetermined date before a meeting to be held under the joint auspices of the Liberal and Socialist Clubs. The subject of the talk will be on some political topic of interest to undergraduates. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...question. As an answer Congress had sent him a bill about the Government's $135,000,000 power-&-nitrate plant on the Tennessee River.* Carefully he pondered the measure. Carefully his Secretary of War pondered it. Carefully his Attorney General pondered it. They scratched their collective heads in joint perplexity...
...from Harvard ('04). practiced law in Boston. During the War he became a special legal adviser to the Treasury on the collection of War taxes, later served as solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Always interested in the legalistic intricacies of taxation, he did special work for the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue. He is now a member of the famed Manhattan law firm of [Elihu] Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, specializing in public service and business organization law. For recreation he writes scholarly articles on taxation for law reviews, plays hard at fashionable Piping Rock Club...
Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is?the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain...