Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there, flowers came from two other old friends: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...told a Senate committee last April: ". . . This program must be such that American citizens accept it as a matter of right-with no feeling of social inferiority." He saw six things...
...Telephone & Telegraph Co. in defense of monopolistic practices. After a three-year investigation at a cost of $1,500,000, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker three months ago submitted to Congress his preliminary report on A. T. & T., suggesting among other things a 25% cut in telephone rates (TIME, April 11). A. T. & T. claimed that it had been refused the right to cross-examine witnesses and offer a prepared defense. Last week. FCC agreed to consider such defense before submitting its final report to Congress...
This year, storm clouds again began to gather. With a new Depression, Franklin Roosevelt took to grousing about the rigidity of steel prices. The Federal Trade Commission launched an attack on the basing-point system used by the cement industry (TIME, April 25). Then came the Wheeler-Lea Act which had a minor clause making all unchallenged past orders of the FTC automatically effective unless the respondents filed an appeal before May 21. Recalling that FTC's order ending "Pittsburgh Plus" had never been challenged, since the company consented to the action, Big Steel hastened to file an appeal...
While Electric Bond & Share took the fight to the Supreme Court, only to lose the first round last spring (TIME, April 4), United Corp. tried to persuade SEC to let it reorganize as an investment trust. SEC turned down no less than seven such proposals (TIME, Feb. 7), and after the Supreme Court's decision, United had to register with SEC after...