Nomination of Thomas R. AmlieU.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 390 pages Reviews political career of Thomas R. Amlie. |
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amendment American Amlie's appointment Answer appointment of Thomas believe bill BINGHAM BURTON K BURTON WHEELER capital CARROLL Chairman Chicago Colorado presiding Commissioner Communist confirmation Congress Constitution corporation D. C. DEAR SENATOR D. C. DEAR SIR D. C. MY DEAR DEAR SENATOR WHEELER DONLEY economic fascism favor February February 9 Federal Government ownership Interstate Commerce Commission Interstate Commerce Committee January 27 January 30 JOHNSON of Colorado labor legislation liberal matter ment Milwaukee nomination of Thomas opposed organization percent political position President Roosevelt problems production profit public ownership qualified question Racine record Representative KELLER Republican Respectfully Senate Interstate Commerce Senate Office Building Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator HILL Senator JOHNSON Senator REED Senator SCHWARTZ shippers Sincerely Soviet statement subcommittee Telegram thing Thomas Amlie tion transportation truly Union United States Senate urge vote WALTER Washington Wisconsin
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Page 21 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 76 - Thus, the language of the act, the legislative reports, and the general purposes of the legislation as reflected by the debates, all combine to demonstrate the Congressional intent to create a body of experts who shall gain experience by length of service- -a body which shall be independent of executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government.
Page 230 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 77 - The fundamental necessity of maintaining each of the three general departments of Government entirely free from the control or coercive influence, direct or indirect, of either of the others, has often been stressed and is hardly open to serious question.
Page 124 - For then only will the economic and social organism be soundly established and attain its end, when it secures for all and each those goods which the wealth and resources of nature, technical achievement, and the social organization of economic affairs can give.
Page 76 - To the extent that it exercises any executive function, as distinguished from executive power in the constitutional sense, it does so in the discharge and effectuation of its quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial powers, or as an agency of the legislative or judicial departments of the government.
Page 75 - Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 28 - Any person who willfully and knowingly makes, circulates or transmits to another or others any statement or rumor, written, printed or by word of mouth, which is untrue in...
Page 76 - The Federal Trade Commission is an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in the statute in accordance with the legislative standard therein prescribed, and to perform other specified duties as a legislative or as a judicial aid.
Page 65 - The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.