Charges of Hon. Wright Patman Against the Secretary of the Treasury: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on H. Res. 92, January 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 1932 |
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A. W. Mellon Alexander Hamilton aluminum business Aluminum Co America Andrew Andrew W Andrew William Mellon appointed Attorney BACHMANN Barco concession bauxite business of trade cent CHAIRMAN charge coal Colombia committee commodities Congress construction Davis DIETERICH dinner directly or indirectly director disqualified Duke duty DYER fact Federal Architect FREDERICK STEIWER gentleman Government GREGG Gulf Oil Corporation Gulf Refining Co Hepburn Act hold the office Internal Revenue interposing Judiciary Koppers Koppers Co LAGUARDIA letter manufactured matter ment merger MICHENER office of Secretary OLIVER opinion ownership of stock PATMAN person Pittsburgh Postmaster President of Colombia production prohibition provision question railroad company record referred refund sea vessel Secretary Mellon section 243 Senate shares Standard Steel Car statement STEIWER stock ownership stockholder submitted tion trade or commerce Treasury Department trust TUCKER United United States Code violation Washington witness WRIGHT PATMAN York
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Page 87 - Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.
Page 70 - Provided, That the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, and the AttorneyGeneral, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 88 - The cardinal principle of statutory construction is to save and not to destroy. We have repeatedly held that as between two possible interpretations of a statute, by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid, our plain duty is to adopt that which will save the act. Even to avoid a serious doubt the rule is the same.
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Page 96 - No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what shall not be enforced. If a law is wrong, its rigid enforcement is the surest guaranty of its repeal.
Page 123 - No judicial officer, except justices of the peace, shall receive to his own use any fees or perquisites of office...
Page 160 - That no person appointed to any office instituted by this act shall, directly or indirectly, be concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade or commerce; or be owner, in whole or in part, of any sea vessel; or purchase, by himself or another in trust for him, any public lands or other public property; or be concerned in the purchase or disposal of any public securities of any State or of the United States...
Page 72 - The Department of the Interior was created by the act of March 3, 1849 (9 Stat.