Nomination of Harry L. Hopkins to be Secretary of Commerce: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on the Nomination of Harry L. Hopkins to be Secretary of Commerce. January 11, 12 and 13, 1939 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 144 páginas |
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Página 133 - It is degrading to the individual, it destroys morale and self-respect; it results in no increase in wealth of the community; it tends to destroy the ability of the individual to perform useful work in the future; and it tends to establish a permanent body of dependents. We should do away with direct relief in the United States. The President's dislike of "this relief business...
Página 2 - COMMERCE. The Secretary of Commerce is charged with the work of promoting the commerce of the United States and its mining, manufacturing, shipping, fishery, and transportation interests. His duties also comprise the...
Página 104 - Of course we will continue to seek to improve working conditions for the workers of America— to reduce hours overlong, to increase wages that spell starvation, to end the labor of children, to wipe out sweatshops.
Página 104 - ... the way from its source to the sea, for drought and flood control, for better marketing facilities for farm commodities, for a definite reduction of farm tenancy, for encouragement of farmer cooperatives, for crop insurance and a stable food supply. For all these we have only just begun to fight. Of course we will provide useful work for the needy unemployed; we prefer useful work to the pauperism of a dole. Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens...
Página 104 - Of course we will continue our efforts for young men and women so that they may obtain an education and an opportunity to put it to use. Of course we will continue our help for the crippled, for the blind, for the mothers, our insurance for the unemployed, our security for the aged.
Página 105 - It is a plain fact at the present time that unless the complexion of the Supreme Court can be changed, two or three elderly judges living in cloistered seclusion and thinking in terms of a bygone day can block nearly all the efforts of a popularly elected President and a popularly elected Congress to correct these ills. . . . Those who oppose this plan are not afraid for democracy.
Página 110 - How about fixing that leaky roof over at the place ? " His Landlord: "Why ask me to fix it?" Tenant: "Well, it's your place, ain't it?" Landlord: "Yes, but it's leaking on you." Tenant: "Well, it won't be next year.
Página 51 - Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures and Use of Governmental funds in 1938, 76th Congress, 1st session (1939) Part I, p.
Página 14 - The CHAIRMAN. Does any other member of the committee have any questions to ask ? If not, Mr.