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Small Business Committee
The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is a standing committee of the United States Senate. It has jurisdiction over the Small Business Administration and is also charged with researching and investigating all problems of American small business enterprises. History Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business On October 8, 1940, the Senate established the Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises (also known as the Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business). The committee was chaired by James E. Murray (Montana. The other members of the special committee were: * Francis T. Maloney, Connecticut * Arthur Capper, Kansas * James M. Mead, New York * Tom Stewart, Tennessee * Claude Pepper, Florida (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Research and Education) * James G. Scrugham, Nevada * Robert A. Taft, Ohio * George A. Wilson, Iowa * Kenneth S. Wherry, Nebraska * C. Douglass Buck, De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joni Ernst
Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver; born July 1, 1970) is an American politician and retired military officer serving since 2015 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Iowa. A member of the Republican Party of Iowa, Republican Party, she previously served in the Iowa Senate, Iowa State Senate from 2011 to 2014 and as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa, Montgomery County from 2005 to 2011. As Chair of the United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, Senate Republican Policy Committee from 2023 to 2025, after having been vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference since 2019, Ernst was the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate. After graduating from Iowa State University, Ernst joined the United States Army Reserve. She served in the Iowa Army National Guard from 1993 to 2015, retiring as a Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel. During the Iraq War, she served as the commanding officer of the 1168th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until his death in 1989. He was considered a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida, after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House of Representatives, Pepper won a 1936 special election to succeed Senator Duncan U. Fletcher. Pepper became one of the most prominent liberals in Congress, supporting legislation such as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. After World War II, Pepper's conciliatory views towards the Soviet Union and opposition to President Harry Truman's 1948 re-nomination engendered opposition within the party. Pepper lost the 1950 Senate Democratic primary to Congressma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadius Gurland
Arcadius Rudolph Lang Gurland (1 September 1904, Moscow - 27 March, 1979, Darmstadt) was a German political scientist of Russian origin. Born in Moscow in 1904, he lived through the Russian Revolution as a teenager, developing political sympathies with the Mensheviks. He travelled into exile with his parents, settling in Germany where he completed his schooling at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He joined the Sozialistische Proletarierjugend, a youth movement close to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). This party was formed by the left-wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, when it broke with Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany over their support for German participation in the First World War. Gurland worked for the Institute for Social Research (IfSR) in New York from 1940 to 1945. By this time he had come to focus his work on the economics of the Nazi state. In 1943 he worked with two colleagues from the IfSR, Franz Neumann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnegie Corporation Of New York
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Since its founding, the Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped establish institutions including the United States National Research Council, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (formerly known as the Russian Research Center), the Carnegie libraries, the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, and the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop). It also has funded the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), and the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). According to OECD, Carnegie Corporation of New York's financing for 2019 development increased by 27% to US$24 million. Carnegie Corporation of New York's president is Louise Richardson and the chairman of its boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertram Myron Gross
Bertram Myron Gross (1912 – March 12, 1997) was an American social scientist, federal bureaucrat and Professor of Political Science at Hunter College (CUNY). He is known from his book '' Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America'' from 1980, and as primary author of the '' HumphreyHawkins Full Employment Act''. Early life and education Bertram Myron Gross was born in 1912 in Philadelphia. He received his B.A. in English and philosophy and his M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.Kenneth N. Gilpin (1997) "Bertram M. Gross, 84, Author of Full Employment Bills of 1944-45". In: ''New York Times'', March 15, 1997. Career In the late 1930s, he started as a federal bureaucrat in Washington. From 1941 to 1945 he was a staff member of a number of Senate committees. In 1940 he was appointed Chief, Research and Hearing for the Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business. With funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York, he took respons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Senators From Delaware
Below is a chronological listing of the United States senators from Delaware. U.S. senators were originally elected by the Delaware General Assembly for designated six-year terms beginning March 4. Frequently portions of the term would remain only upon a U.S. senator's death or resignation. From 1914 and the enforcement of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1913 but rejected by the General Assembly that year and not ratified until July 1, 2010, officeholders were popularly elected on the first Tuesday after November 1; starting 1935, the beginning of their term is January 3. Delaware's current U.S. senators are Democrats Chris Coons (serving since November 15, 2010) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (serving since January 3, 2025). Joe Biden is Delaware's longest serving senator (1973–2009). List of senators , - style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 , 1 , rowspan=3 align=left , George Read , rowspan=3 , Pro-Admin. , rowspan=3 nowrap , Mar 4, 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Senators From Nebraska
Nebraska was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1867, and elects its United States senators to class 1 and class 2. George W. Norris was the state’s longest serving senator (served 1913–1943). Nebraska's current senators are Republicans Deb Fischer (since 2013) and Pete Ricketts (since 2023). List of senators , - style="height:2em" ! rowspan=5 , 1 , rowspan=5 align=left , Thomas Tipton , rowspan=5 , Republican , rowspan=5 nowrap , Mar 1, 1867 –Mar 3, 1875 , rowspan=2 , Elected in 1867. , rowspan=2 , 1 , , rowspan=3 , 1 , rowspan=3 , Elected in 1867.Lost re-election. , rowspan=3 nowrap , Mar 1, 1867 –Mar 3, 1871 , rowspan=3 , Republican , rowspan=3 align=right , John Thayer ! rowspan=3 , 1 , - style="height:2em" , , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 1869. , rowspan=3 , 2 , , - style="height:2em" , , rowspan=3 , 2 , rowspan=3 , Elected in 1870.Lost re-election. , rowspan=3 nowrap , Mar 4, 1871 –Mar 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth S
Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely". Etymology The second part of the name ''Cinaed'' is derived either from the Celtic ''*aidhu'', meaning "fire", or else Brittonic ''jʉ:ð'' meaning "lord". People Fictional characters * Kenneth Widmerpool, character in Anthony Powell's novel sequence ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' * Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock Places In the United States: * Kenneth, Minnesota * Kenneth City, Florida In Scotland: * Inch Kenneth Inch Kenneth () is a small grassy island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull, in Scotland. It is at the entrance of Loch na Keal, to the south of Ulva. It is part of the Loch na Keal National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. It is within ..., an island off the west coast of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Senators From Iowa
Iowa was admitted to the United States, Union on December 28, 1846, and elects United States Senate, United States senators to Classes of United States senators, class 2 and Classes of United States senators, class 3. The state's current U.S. senators are Republicans Chuck Grassley (serving since 1981) and Joni Ernst (serving since 2015). Chuck Grassley is Iowa's longest-serving senator (since 1981). List of senators , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=2 colspan=3 , ''Vacant'' , rowspan=2 nowrap , Dec 28, 1846 –Dec 7, 1848 , rowspan=2 , Legislature failed to elect. , rowspan=2 , — , , rowspan=2 , — , rowspan=2 , Legislature failed to elect. , rowspan=2 nowrap , Dec 28, 1846 –Dec 7, 1848 , rowspan=2 colspan=3 , ''Vacant'' , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=2 , - style="height:2em" ! rowspan=9 , 1 , rowspan=9 align=left , George Wallace Jones, George W. Jones , rowspan=9 , Democratic Party (United States), Democratic , rowspan=9 nowrap , Dec 7, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George A
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Senators From Ohio
Ohio was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803, and elects U.S. senators to class 1 and class 3. Its current U.S. senators are Republicans Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted (both serving since 2025). Not counting Vermont and Maine, where independents have caucused with the Democrats since 2001 and 2013, Ohio had the longest current split delegation, having had two senators from the opposite parties from 2007 until 2025. John Sherman was Ohio's longest-serving senator (1861–1877; 1881–1897). List of senators , - style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 , 1 , rowspan=3 align=left , John Smith , rowspan=3 , Democratic-Republican , rowspan=3 nowrap , Apr 1, 1803 –Apr 25, 1808 , rowspan=3 , Elected in 1803.Resigned. , rowspan=5 , 1 , , rowspan=2 , 1 , rowspan=2 , Elected in 1803.Retired. , rowspan=2 nowrap , Apr 1, 1803 –Mar 3, 1807 , rowspan=2 , Democratic-Republican , rowspan=2 align=right , Thomas Worthington ! rowspan=2 , 1 , - style="height:2e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
