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' Battle Royal
Likely on
Unit Rule
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Fight May Revive
South's Veto Power
Over Candidate
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
One of the biggest political con
tests in the year 1940 will come not
alone in connection with the nomi
nation of a presidential candidate
at the Demo
cratic National
Convention, but
with respect to
the abolition of
_.the so-called
“unit” rule
whereby the ma
jority within a
State casts the
ballot for the
whole State.
Although Pres
fdent Roosevelt
was renominated
virtually by ac
clamation at the
1936 convention, David Lawrence,
the New Deal strategists secured the
repeal of the historic two-thirds rule
whereby 6623 per cent of the dele
Bait-a vuung were required to make
a nomination.
Each convention makes its own
rules and if the delegates should
wish to do so they can this year re
Impose the two-thirds rule. A simple i
motion by majority vote to the effect
that the rules of the 1932 convention j
shall prevail is all that's necessary in
order to bring the two-thirds rule
back.
The principal debate nowadays
about the two-thirds rule is that
persons who favored its abolition
expected that along with it would
go/the so-called unit rule. Thus it
has been possible in the past for a
' relatively small group of delegates to
exercise a majority within certain
States and thereby establish a suffi
cient bloc of votes by the unit rule
as to prevent the nomination of a
particular opponent against whom
forces were joined.
Way Paved for Fight.
. The general feeling among those
Who have discussed the issue in the
past has been that with repeal of
the two-thirds rule, the unit rule also
should go by the boards. The fact
that the administration forces at the
1936 convention repealed the two
thirds rule but didn't abolish the unit
rule has paved the way for a fight
at the 1940 convention.
The significance of these rules is
that if any considerable number of
delegates want to block a third-term
nomination they can do so much
more easily with a two-thirds re
quirement than they could if only
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make a nomination. Likewise, if
there is a considerable opposition
here and there within a given State
to prevent a third-term nomination,
the abolition of the unit rule would ,
permit such a minority to have its
votes tallied in the total.
' Individual States react differently !
to the unit rule. Some forbid it
and send their delegates instructed
to cast their ballots as individuals
instead of as a unit, But there has
been enough unit-rule voting to
wipe out the minority view.
If the 1932 election rules were to j
prevail, the renomination of Presi- j
dent Roosevelt by means of the
“draft’’ would be a difficult thing for
the New Deal enthusiasts to achieve. I
For there are enough States already j
which either have stanch support
ready for favorite sons or are in
clined to send their delegates “un- I
instructed,” so as to make more than I
the necessary one-third bloc which |
Would prevent a nomination.
The Southern States, in particu
lar. have held fast heretofore to the
two-thirds rule and the unit rule.
They have done so because the Dem
ocratic party has had its stronghold
in the South, and by reason of long
service in Congress, many Senators
and Representatives have been in
the forefront of the delegations sent
to the conventions. These Southern
Democrats, through the two-thirds
rule, have been able to exercise a
veto power on the nominee by means
of a vote or two in excess of the
one-third needed to block a nomi
nation. The South has stood fast
tor the unit rule for the same reason.
Battle Royal in Prospect.
Conditions li QVD rVl O nrrofl «
What with the elimination of the
two-thirds rule. If the unit rule
Is abolished, there are many States
,ln the North as well as the South
where minority sentiment will be
registered against a third-term
drive. Hence the question of what
rules are to apply at the Democratic
National Convention is already be
ing talked about as likely to precipi
tate at the very outset of the con
vention a battle royal.
The Republican National Conven
tion has for years nominated by a
simple majority vote of the dele
gates, with the unit rule being
applied by State delegations only in
rare instances.
The theory that a majority of
the delegates should do the nom
inating is sound, but it is a denial
of minority expression to invoke the
unit rule. This is because in a na
tional convention the true choice
is that of the majority of the dele
gates of the entire convention rather
than a candidate chosen by per
haps a minority of the total num
^ ber of delegates exercising through
the unit rule a control of a majority
of the State delegations.
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The Capital Parade
President Groping for Way to Save
N. L. R. B. Power but Appease Its Foes
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The President is still groping for a way to save the substantial
powers of the National Labor Relations Board. The board is under
almost irresistible attack, with the A. F. of L. clamoring for its blood,
the employers longing to cut its gizzard out, the C. I. O. reaching for
its scalp and Representative Smith’s House Investigating Committee in
the actual process of dissecting it.
The situation presents a pretty problem in the art of legislative
compromise. The interests attacking the board are mutually inimical,
but although its enemies hate one another, the board has almost no
defenders. Drastic amendments of the board’s enabling act command
powerful congressional support The President, who does not want drastic
Bmcuumeuts, must tun up au ms
canniness to avoid a nasty fight.
The most common forecast is
that he will ai^pease the board’s
enemies by countenancing a ripper
bill, abolishing the board as now
constituted and allowing him to ap
point a new one of more moderate
tendency. The board’s chairman,
J. Warren Madden, has already
been gazetted to the judiciary, and
the KUnnnseri reslstnnre nf ttiB ntkar
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extremist board member Edwin Smith, has been widely noted.
But the truth is that as yet the President is not only unready to
countenance a ripper bill, but is actually being strongly urged by his
New Deal advisers to hold his present lines. The New Dealers take the
position that the President can sit back, let Congress write its own
amendments to the Labor Relations Act, and then veto the amend
ments if Congress goes too far.
Byrnes' Middle Way
If the situation ripens unfavorably, the President may be forced
to adopt the ripper bill plan, although it savors of the sort of public
surrender which he is always loath to make. Meanwhile, the outlines
of a possible middle course are vaguely emerging.
The Labor Relations Board controversy is one of the big legislative
questions on which the President has enlisted the aid of the able Senator
James F. Byrnes. The present strategy is to hold the House changes in
the board within the narrowest limits feasible, and then to rely on
Senator Byrnes, with his peculiar talent for legislative management to
achieve a "reasonable” compromise in the Senate. The word has gone
out that the President will not resist “some amendments.” If any one
can pacify the N. L. R. B.’s enemies with a quarter of a loaf, Senator
Byrnes can do it. Concurrently, Senator Byrnes will have to persuade
the President to make the quarter loaf available.
Moreover, the fact that amendments are to be limited and no ripper
bill is to be passed does not mean that changes in N. L. R. B. personnel
will not occur. On the contrary, his legislative leaders have already in
Lime uxuca* me n. u. it. a. administrative system 1s
firmly reformed In the Interest of moderation, they will be powerless to
hold off the N. L. R. B.’s attackers. But the changes will simply be
arranged between the White House and the board, and will probably
consist merely in the dropping of such pilots as the board's Robespierrean
secretary, Nate Witt.
Effective Mediation?
Finally, a very interesting move is afoot to supplement the N. L. R. B.’s
work with an effective Federal service of mediation between workers and
employers. One suggestion of the N. L. R. B.’s middle-of-the-road mem
ber, Dr. William Leiserson, is that many of the N. L. R. B.'s difficulties
might be avoided if cases suitable to mediation were taken off its hands
by a mediation service. Dr. Leiserson sensibly argues that the board’s
function is to enforce collective bargaining, and that it is most complicating
to have the board dragged into labor disputes in which collective bargain
ing problems are not involved.
A mediation service now exists, in semi-embryonic form, at the Labor
Department. The service has done fairly good work in a number of impor
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power and cannot even subpoena the
parties to any labor dispute it
enters.
During the last General Motors
i strike, Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins wrote letters to Speaker
William B. Bankhead and Vice
President John N. Garner request
ing that the power of subpoena be
pnnfprrprf nn Vuar m^Htatnrc A mnv®
to increase the mediation service’s
authority has long been in the air. Now Senator Robert F. Wagner,
original sponsor of the Labor Relations Act, is preparing to Introduce a
bill to this effect. The Wagner bill is likely to run into trouble both from
workers and employers, since both parties have always fought anything in
the nature of compulsory arbitration. The bill will also suffer from the
general congressional distaste for Miss Perkins, whose department it would
aggrandize. Yet the public irritation with the labor problem has now
reached a point at which such a bill might pass.
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Dinner Will Honor
Academy of Design
The National Academy of De
sign, oldest professional art organi
zation in the country will be hon
ored at a dinner given by the Wash
ington Society of Fine Arts at 7
p.m. tomorrow at the Mayflower
Hotel.
\
Among members of the academy
who will attend are Hobart Nichols
and John Taylor Arms, president
and assistant corresponding secre
tary, respectively; Leila Living
ston Morse, granddaughter of Sam
uel F. B. Morse, inventor of the
telegraph and founder in 1826 of
the academy; Barry Faulkner,
painter of the murals in the Ar
chives Building; Herman A. Mc
Neil, Charles Keck, Edward Mc
Cartan, sculptors, and Charles C.
Curran, George Elmer Browne,
Henry Rittenberg and Charles Bit
tinger, the latter of this city,
painters.
Prominent Washingtonians who
are scheduled to attend include Al
bert W. Atwood, president of the
Washington Society of Pine Arts,
who will preside; David E. Finley,
director of the National Gallery of
Art; Senator Theodore F. Green,
Democrat, of Rhode Island; Fred
eric A. Delano, chairman of the Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission: H. P. Caemmerer,
secretary of the National Commis
sion of Fine Arts; Dr. Waldo G. Le
land, director of the American
Council of teamed Societies; Cor
coran Thom, vice president of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art; Dr. George
F. Bowerman, public librarian, and
representatives of the Society of
Washington Artists, the Washing
ton Water Color Club, the Land
scape Club and the Arts Club.
Wax Blast Burns Man
James Banks, colored, 40. of 1332
Eleventh street N.W., a janitor, was
burned yesterday when a can of wax
on a heater exploded- in the base
ment of a building at 1413 New York
avenue N.W. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital for second-de
gree burns to the hip. ear and arm.
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The
Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of Interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly vpposed to The Star’s.
The Political Mill
President's Silence on Third Term
Hampers Candidates' Campaigning
. By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Republican aspirants for the 1940
presidential nomination are out!
beating the bushes. Democratic
candidates—and there are many—
with their
hands tied ap
parently o v%e r
President Roose
velt’s final atti
tude towarv a
third-term n 3m
1 n a 11 o n, are
making no polit
ical speeches. It
is a strange sit
u a t i o n. How
much longer it
can endure is
p r o b 1 ematlcal.
The presidential
preferential pri
maries Will be G. Gould Lincoln,
along in a few weeks. If one or
more Democratic candidates make
no effort to win such preference at
the hands of the voters—the situa
tint! will hp st.ill mnrp ctranan
Vice President Garner, candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination no matter what, his
friends say, will make no pre-con
vention campaign speeches. Mr.
Garner, his record, his personality
and his general attitude toward pub
lic questions are practically as well
known to the American people as
are President Roosevelt and his rec
ord. The Garner people figure their
candidate can run in the primary
States without personal appear
ances and speeches. The Vice Pres
ident will be entered in a number of
them, or slates of delegates will be
entered for him. If Senator Don
ahey steps aside as Ohio's favorite
son candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination — Garner
surely will be entered—and give his
written assent as required by th§
primary law of that State.
Others Less Known.
If Senator Donahey goes ahead—
as has been forecast—as a favorite
son candidate, there still will be
Garner delegates, ready to go to the
Vice President when the time comes,
supporters of the Vice President
confidentially predict, notwithstand
ing the claims made by Roosevelt
third termers that the whole delega
tion will swing to the President im
mediately.
There are other Democratic as
I pirants for the presidential nomina
tion. however, who are not as widely
known as the Vice President, and
some of them may have different
ideas about pre-convention cam
! paigning and speaking. If they are
1 to get anywhere they may have to
show themselves to the voters, just
as the Republican candidates are
doing today. Take the case of Paul
V. McNutt of Indiana, Federal Se
curity administrator. His hands
have been pretty well tied up to
date by the President’s failure to
| disclose his own plans. It is true
| that the McNutt-for-President or
ganization. under the direction of
Frank McHale. has been working in
every part of the country. But that
is different from putting Mr. Mc
Nutt himself on the stump, where
he is reputedly strong.
Then there ere Postmaster rjen
eral James A. Farley of New York,
1 Attorney General Robert H. Jack
json, also of New York; Gov. Stark
I and Senator Clark, both of Missouri,
and Senator Barkley of Kentucky.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who
hails from Tennessee'and has been
reported to have White House favor
for the nomination, is not going to
make any campaign, it is confident
ly asserted. His nomination, if it
comes, will be the result of a com
promise between the New Dealers
and the other group of Democrats.
Associate Justice Douglas of the Su
preme Court will, of course, refrain
from public speaking.
Wheeler Gets Around.
One Democratic possibility—spelled
in this case with a big P—is getting
about the country a lot, speaking in
many States, although he is not
making direct political speeches.
That is Senator Burton K. Wheel
er of Montana. He is just back
from the West, where he spoke in
Denver, in St. Louis, in Cincinnati
and several other cities. He will be
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on the wing soon again in another
direction. He will have a great deal
of liberal and labor support when the
showdown comes.
The draft-Roosevelt brigade is
hard at work, with here and there
however, a check. In the first place,
Democratic leaders in many places
believe that President Roosevelt is
not going to be a candidate—a
feeling which the drafters have to
overcome. All is not beer and skit
tles for the drafters in Ohio, despite
the claims made by the State chair
man that Ohio stood ready to send
a Roosevelt delegation. In Florida
the third termers sought to have
the unit rule imposed on the State’s
delegation to the national Conven
tion—when it shall have been elect
ed in a primary. They were turned
down by the State Central Commit
tee, however. In Mississippi a reso
lution presented in the State Legis
lature indorsing the President for a
third term was tabled.
On the Republican side District
Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New
York is swinging into a rapid stride.
He is in New England for a three
day campaign, which will carry him
as far North as Portland, Me. On
February 7 Mr. Dewey will start a
swing across the continent for a Lin
coln Day speech in Portland, Oreg.
His westward trip will include stops
in Chicago, Butte and Helena, Mont.,
and Spokane, Wash., on his way out
to the Coast, and in Salt Lake City.
Boise and Cheyenne on his return
trip. While Mr. Dewey will make
few set speeches, he will confer with
many Republican leaders and may
speak informally to various groups.
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio
and Senator Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire already have made trips
across the country, campaigning for
the presidential nomination. Sena
tor Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michi
gan is to make two addresses, one
in St. Paul on February 10 and one
in his home city, Grand Rapids, on
February 12, Lincoln's birthday an
niversary. Other than these speeches
Senator Vandenberg will stick close
to the Senate. While his friends
are out working for him in many
States, Senator Vandenberg must be
regarded at present as a receptive
rather than an aggressive candidate.
Lincoln's birthday anniversary will
by a signal for a vast outpouring of
Republican speeches in all parts of
the country. The Democrats had
their innings on Jackson Day, Janu
ary 8.
Gen. John A. Johnston
Leaves $343,351 Estate
An estate estimated at $343,351,
mostly In stocks, was left by the late
Brig. Gen. John A. Johnston, a
former District Commissioner. Dis
trict Court records disclosed today,
when a petition for the probate of
his will was filed by the Washington
Loan & Trust Co.
Representing the estate are At
torneys Arthur Peter and W. H.
Baden and the will, drawn some
time ago, leaves the income remain
ing after a number of bequests to
members of his family and friends
have been made, to the John Dick
son Home for Old Men. Gen. John
ston was president of the Board of
Trustees of the home. With the
demise of the beneficiaries men
tioned in the will, officials said, the
income for the home will be in
creased from time to time.
The Washington Loan & Trust Co.
is named trustee and executor of
the estate. 1116 general served for
over 30 years as a director of the
company. His housekeeper, Mrs.
Lottie L. Turner, is to receive $2,000
annually under terms of the will,
while his nephew, Samuel Alex
ander Johnston, and an employe,
Corlies B. Tayor, will each receive
$1,000 annually. The general's
grandniece, Mrs. Franklin A. Langs
dale, is to receive $900 annually.
We, the People
La Mont Boiler, Invention of Officer
Of U. S. Navy, Exploited Abroad
(This is the first of a series of four articles on the La Mont
boiler and the Navy.)
By JAY FRANKLIN.
This is a story about boilers. ...
This is a story about high-pressure steam, high-pressure Intrigue of
foreign agents in the United States and high-pressure bureaucratic
stupidity of the American Navy.
This is a story about why there are only five ships in the combined
British and French fleets abje to cope, single-handed, with a German
"pocket battleship.” •
This is a story about why American naval vessels are out of date
even before they are launched.
This is a story about why the American Naw refused to adnnt the
Mr. Franklin has told The
Star that careful research has
preceded the preparation of this
series of articles. The Star
finds the articles interesting,
and the facts outlined by Mr.
Franklin speak for themselves.
Whether the articles merely
reflect a difference of profes
sional opinion among experts
on a highly technical subject,
however, or whether they bear
out Mr. Franklin’s diagnosis of
"naval bureaucracy’’ is, of
course, a matter of opinion.
The Star has invited officials
of the Navy to reply, officially or
unofficiallm, through a Star re
porter, should they care to pre
sent the Navy’s side of the
case.
invention of an American naval offi
cer and why the German Navy is
now almost entirely equipped with
that invention.
This is a story about what
many military and engineering ex
perts believe is the “new weapon”
which, Hitler has boasted, will
change the entire aspect of the Eu
ropean war when it appears next
spring.
But this is, essentially, a story
about boilers.
The story properly opens 22
years ago. in 1918, when Lt. Comdr.
Walter Douglas La Mont (Annapo
lis. 1910) began serious experimen
tation in an entirely new engineer
ing field—high-pressure steam gen
eration. During the previous eight
years he had had wide engineering
experience on every typq of naval
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rines and torpedo boats to battleships, had been an instructor in steam
engineering at the Naval Academy, repair officer of the submarine division
of the Atlantic fleet, and a Navy aviator.
Explosion Speeds Effort
His interest in this field and his determinatibn to “do something
constructive” had been intensified by an explosion of one of the old
“header” type boilers, with which all American battleships were then
equipped. That and his keen interest in aviation started him working on
a new and radical system of high-pressure steam generation with the
hope of developing a unit light enough for airplane use.
In 1918 La Mont developed Just such a boiler. Tests at the naval ex
perimental station in Annapolis were eminently successful, and he offered
the invention to the Navy. The offer was turned down. Instead, La Mont
was urged to take out patents and continue his research. He obtained
the patents, but when tne war enaea me wavy nauea au experimental
work^
in 1920, on three months’ leave. La Mont constructed a new type
primary boiler for the Superheater Co. of East Chicago. Again the tests
were successful, but La Mont's leave expired before the work could be
completed. The Navy was still not interested in this tremendously sig
nificant development, and La Mont was sent to the Philippines and China.
In 1924, unable to make headway against the ingrown bureaucracy
of the Navy Department and having been promised private financial
I backing for his invention, La Mont resigned from the Navy. He and
; his backers formed the La Mont Corp. (N. Y.), installed the new type
of steam generators in such commercial establishments as Consolidated
Gas. Iowa Electric Light & Power (Cedar Rapids), and Campbell's Soup,
| Philadelphia.
{Salary Not Great
The financial return to La Mont was not great—as president of the
company he received $8,000 a year—but tests of the new boilers were
entirely successful and it was apparent that the new invention could be
adapted for use not only in automobiles and merchant and naval vessels,
but in airplanes as weli. The steam generation world was on the verge
of a new and exciting era.
On the verge, perhaps, but at least as far as the United States was
concerned no nearer. For by 1929, five years later, a great change had
come over the La Mont Corp. and over the outlook for the inventor. What
| caused that change—what foreign influences brought it about—is a story
' in itself.
By 1929. however, La Mont—the inventor and moving spirit—had prac
j tically no voice in the operation of the company (Three years later he
I was to be eased out, first as president, then as vice president and dt
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in the United States had ceased. The ooilers and waterwalls which
promised to revolutionize the steam power industry and naval construc
tion were no longer being manufactured and installed—in the United
States.
Over the next few years the greatest new development in this entire
field of engineering disappeared, to all intents, in the country of its origin.
Germany Uses La Mont Type
But not in Europe. Early in 1930. a new-type La Mont "waste heater”
boiler was installed in Germany. A year later another La Mont invention,
the waterwall. appeared in the same country. Within another year, the
prize of the entire series of ftiventions—the La Mont high-pressure boiler—
was in production there.
Today not a single La Mont boiler is in operation in the United
States. Today, more than 700 commercial La Mont units—more than five
times all other types of forced circulation boilers in existence—are in
use in Europe.
Today, the American-invented La Mont boiler is in use throughout
Germany—in central power plants, locomotives, ships.
Today, practically the entire German Navy has adopted the La Mont
boiler.
Today, in a secret Hanover testing station, the Nazi government is
developing a silent, high-powered, steam-driven airplane—using the basic
La Mont unit!
This is what President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Edison
are up against in their effort to modernize the United States Navy in
the face of almost solid opposition from the ingrown, self-perpetuating
naval bureaucracy.
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Headline Folk :
And What
They Do
40-Year Quest for
News Puts Tharaud
In French Academy
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
During this writer's first news
paper workout in Chicago, Hans
and Fritz were rotund, heavily
mustached, elderly reporters cov
ering the Chicago Avenue police
station for the German newspaper.
They looked alike, walked in step,
arm-in-arm and Jointly asked the
other reporters each night: "Iss it
a good story yet tonight maybe?”
The “front page” crowd—Hildy
Johnson and Walter Burns among
them—liked them and gave them
what they had, and they lived a
mellow, carefree and beery life. Just
strolling around, always in step.
One night, one of the reporters
made a great stir by telephoning
and whispering. The Germans were
worried. But the newshawk took
them aside and filled them with an
excitine varn about a man who
spent 20 years on a desert island,
returned, looked through a window
in his house on Cottage Grove ave
nue, and saw his wife with a new
husband and family He died, his
identity was learned and they gave
him a grand funeral. The next day
the German paper splashed the ex
clusive story of Enoch Arden, 1156
Cottage Grove avenue, all over its
front page.
In Paris, the brothers, Jerome and
Jean Tharaud. fare better after,
having been similarly lock-stepped
In a 40-year quest for news. Je
rome is received into the French
Academy, the first reporter ever so
honored, and the only reason why
Jean was not also received is that
the academy couldn’t split the
honor and had to take one or the
other. Which twin to receive, has
been one of the major worries of the
academy for several years and the
subject of much discussion through
out Europe.
They are really not twins. Jerome
being 66 and Jean 63. but they have
been twined in everything they ever
wrote, and in all the prizes they
have won, which include the Gon
court Prize of 1906 and the Acad
emy Grand Prize in literature in
1919. .
dui, uuuK.e nails ana rniz, me
Frcres Tharaud know how to shake
a leg and turned up many a red-hot
story on Corsican bandits, war. pol
itics and what not. In bestowing
the honor. Georges Duhamel com
mended the recipient by saying:
“Thanks to men of your stamp and
worth, reporting has taken its place
as a type of literature, and. I mav
add. literature of a most vivid and
effective kind."
Chest Quota Is Play Topic
A play dramatizing the failure
of the Washington public to fill the
last Community Chest quota,
“Clouds Over Washington," will be
presented by a group of Washing
ton Civic Theater players at the
Chest's annual meeting at 8 p.m.
February 5, at the United States
Chamber of Commerce, it was an
nounced today.
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