Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headline purposes this announcement was precisely what the President wanted. But its significance was precisely nil. Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison are intraState companies, unaffected by the Federal "death sentence" on utility holding companies, largely exempt from other sections of the Public Utility Act of 1935 and far from the madding competition of TVA. Moreover, Mr. Carlisle planned to spend the $112,000,000 anyway...
...Passed a bill containing five minor amendments to the Federal Credit Union Act, passed in 1934, under which credit unions may be organized and operated under Federal charters issued by the Farm Credit Administration...
...industry achieved official maturity in 1935 when Congress put it, along with trucking, under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
...favor of A. F. of L.'s Street & Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employes. The Labor Board ruled out the company union, ordered the employes reinstated. For a time it looked as if Greyhound would be the key case in the Supreme Court's review of the Wagner Act, but that honor finally went to Associated Press...
...present neutrality act is based on the assumption "that our neutral trade and our neutrality got us into the last war," Borchard asserted. "But it was not trade that got us in. It was sheer unneutrality--the official favoring of on side against the other...