Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Leon Henderson, who predicted the crash of October 1937 the spring before. He contended then that greedy Business, by raising prices too soon and too fast, would deflate the recovery boomlet of 1936-37. If the executive wing of TNEC has a preconceived case to prove and to act upon with legislation many months hence, this is it: that large concentrations of corporate wealth and productive capacity have, in various industries, anti-social powers which must be curbed by the Federal power. But after Mr. Henderson and the Janizariat and the President started out to prove that case...
...Washington, the Food and Drug Administration, completing an investigation of powders, pastes, lotions and enamels preparatory to enforcing the cosmetics section of the new Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, discovered that modern women paint themselves in 1,400 different shades...
...preaching that Amishmen should be allowed to wear buttons on their clothes instead of hooks and eyes. Congressman Eicher is the kind of liberal who read all the bills that came before the House. A wheelhorse in a pasture of mavericks, he worked on the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, defended the Court Plan, was the most ardent New Dealer among the Monopoly Investigation Committee's Congressmen. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the SEC in place of Liberal Businessman John W. Hanes, resigned...
This blast from quiet Senator Fred Her bert Brown of New Hampshire played its part in persuading Congress to pass the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ("death sentence"). Howard Hopson, lying low ever since he was spanked by the Black investigation for lobbying against the Act, has left to his more conventional brethren in utilities the job of fighting the death sentence. Last week that fight was apparently over. Having battled unavailingly up to the Supreme Court, all the major utilities submitted plans for slicing themselves up in accord with the death sentence. For the occasion it pleased...
...required by law, almost entirely "integrated" geographically, the second obviously cannot be. For this the Hopson lawyers had an "out" which will doubtless give SEC pause- they maintained that since each subsidiary was wholly located in a single State or adjoining States, the plan met the provisions of the Act...