Sugar: Hearings Before ..., 66-3, January, 19211921 - 104 pages |
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... course upon the general knowledge that this has been done will create a speculative market . I have made arrangements with very large interests to handle all or any part of this sugar that we may indicate . Our principal idea being ...
... course upon the general knowledge that this has been done will create a speculative market . I have made arrangements with very large interests to handle all or any part of this sugar that we may indicate . Our principal idea being ...
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... course they should be made good . Now , if you have any con- tract Mr. ARMSTRONG . Our contention is this , briefly- The CHAIRMAN . You can state what your contract is . Mr. ARMSTRONG . Our contract , so far as we have a contract , is ...
... course they should be made good . Now , if you have any con- tract Mr. ARMSTRONG . Our contention is this , briefly- The CHAIRMAN . You can state what your contract is . Mr. ARMSTRONG . Our contract , so far as we have a contract , is ...
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... course , to offer this sugar until we actually had the permit in hand ; otherwise , we would have been short on the sugar market and in a very serious position at that time . We were therefore tied until we could find out that that ...
... course , to offer this sugar until we actually had the permit in hand ; otherwise , we would have been short on the sugar market and in a very serious position at that time . We were therefore tied until we could find out that that ...
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... course , that license had to be respected , but in this particular transaction you claim you were acting as the agent of the Department of Justice and representing the Department of Justice to do the kind of thing they wanted done ? Mr ...
... course , that license had to be respected , but in this particular transaction you claim you were acting as the agent of the Department of Justice and representing the Department of Justice to do the kind of thing they wanted done ? Mr ...
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... course we could not have got any money from the President unless Con- gress had authorized it ; and when the Lever Act gave the President the right to use any agencies that he might see proper he directed the organization of the Sugar ...
... course we could not have got any money from the President unless Con- gress had authorized it ; and when the Lever Act gave the President the right to use any agencies that he might see proper he directed the organization of the Sugar ...
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agency American Trading American Trading Co Argentine Government Argentine sugar ARMSTRONG asked ATTORNEY B. H. Howell Board to take buy sugar buy the Cuban buy the sugar cent a pound cent profit CHAIRMAN committee Congress contract corporation Cuban crop Cuban sugar dealers December 31 Department of Justice direct the Sugar distribution Edgar Rickard embargo Executive order export firms Food Administration FRANKLIN gentlemen GILBERT N GLASGOW handle Herbert Hoover HULINGS HUTCHINSON issued JACOWAY Julius H letter Lever Act Lever law license loss matter MCKINLEY MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan McNary Act ment of Justice permit POST powers and authority price of sugar PURNELL question regulations resolution RIDDICK sell this sugar situation sold Sugar Board Sugar Equalization Board sugar in Argentina TINCHER tons of sugar transaction understand United States Food United States Government United States Sugar VOIGT wheat and wheat wheat products WILSON
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Page 44 - SEC. 2. That in carrying out the purposes of this Act the President is authorized to enter into any voluntary arrangements or agreements, to create and use any agency or agencies, to accept the services of any person without compensation, to cooperate with any agency or person, to utilize any department or agency of the Government, and to coordinate their activities so as to avoid any preventable loss or duplication of effort or funds.
Page 74 - An Act To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Page 99 - That the President is authorized, from time to time, to requisition foods, feeds, fuels, and other supplies necessary to the support of the Army or the maintenance of the Navy, or any other public use connected with the common defense...
Page 41 - Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the...
Page 42 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 43 - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia, this...
Page 41 - United States of America, Department of State, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original on file in the Department of State. In testimony whereof I, John Davis, Acting Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Page 38 - December 31, 1920, plans and methods of securing, if found necessary for the public good, an adequate supply and an equitable distribution of sugar at a fair and reasonable price to the people of the United States.
Page 75 - In this behalf he shall do and perform such acts and things as may be authorized and required of him from time to time by direction of the President and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed.
Page 56 - Cuba on such terms as might be agreed upon by the contracting parties, at a price moderate, but compensating to the producer and well within the economic reach of the consumer, always provided that this offer met with the full consent and cooperation of the United States Government. In the interval that has transpired we have awaited your answer, confidently believing that the United States Government would undertake the continued control of sugar, and every interest concerned, especially the American...