Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than cheap power is at stake; a new element of democratic decency can be introduced into public life. The sovereign government is under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what...
...question of the constitutionality of the refund clause of the 1936 revenue act, which requires a manufacturer to prove that he passed the burden of the invalidated A.A.A. processing taxes on the consumer before he can obtain a refund, involves the large...
Recurring in the Public Utility Act of 1935, which was aimed at eliminating holding companies not "demonstrably useful," is the phrase ''geographically and economically integrated." One idea of the Act is to encourage rearrangement of power properties in the best interests of the local population. Toward this end two big New England holding companies asked the Securities & Exchange Commission last week to approve a swap of various Massachusetts gas and electric properties. Of no national moment in itself, the deal was the first attempted under the Utility Act, may mark the start of a general reshuffling among...
...transport, asked an extra $1,300,000 for its motor carrier bureau, sought power to regulate minimum water carrier rates within its jurisdiction. At the same time, the I. C. C. took it upon itself to criticize Congress sharply for the most controversial section of the Revenue Act...
...landed a job as secretary to Isadora Duncan. With aging Isadora and her young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...