Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in the current congressional uproar there was last week a small but possibly significant turn in the Prohibition tide. It came when large, benign Representative George Scott Graham of Pennsylvania, 79-year-old Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he would allow his committee to hold public hearings on seven bills for repeal or modification of the 18th Amendment. The date...
What Chairman Graham thought of Prohibition he made clear in a speech last week to the Federal Bar Association in Manhattan...
Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey, banker, insurer, orator, managed Mr. Hoover's pre-convention Eastern campaign. As a reward he was made secretary of the Republican National Committee. Last week he complained of the press of other affairs, resigned. As always in the case of such leave-takings, he, the White House and G. 0. P. Chairman Claudius Hart Huston had to deny rumors of a breach in the party, had to down stories that the President had jettisoned his political friend...
...power and prestige of four billion dollars and of 469,000 stockholders were thrown last week against any Federal commission which might be set up to regulate U. S. telephone and telegraph companies as the Interstate Commerce Commission now regulates the railroads. The four billion dollars and 469,000 stockholders were those of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., personified by Walter Sherman Gifford, A. T. & T. president. Mr. Gifford told the Senate Interstate Commerce committee that, while he favored U. S. regulation "in principle," he opposed it in practice because, in his opinion, it would annihilate control of communications by State...
Chicago's fiscal fix last week began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois defaulted on a $300,000 waterway bond issue due Jan. 1, averted serious trouble only by persuading bondholders not to present their certificates for redemption. The state may _ be' unable to meet soldiers' bonus bond's due Aug. i. or to pay $4,856,602 due the Cook County School...