Word: assess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with certain qualifications); 4) relieve directors of liabilities if they had no reason to question reports of qualified experts; 5) limit an underwriter's liabilities to securities sold instead of the whole issue; 6) reduce the standard of care from fiduciary to prudency and 7) authorize courts to assess full costs against plaintiffs, thus lessening the temptation for nuisance suits...
...came official acts that needed haste. He held a Cabinet meeting. He signed the Johnson bill forbidding loans to defaulting nations, signed a joint resolution directing the Federal Power Commission to study electric power rates throughout the U. S., signed an administrative order to enable NRA code authorities to assess all code members for the cost of code administration...
During the Albany uproar Governor Lehman's utility bills were favorably reported out of committee where they had been pigeonholed for months. All but two were promptly passed by the Senate. But those two-one to permit municipal operation after a referendum, one to assess costs of rate and other investigations against the utility companies-were the Governor's pet bills. The mild, soft-spoken Governor declared that the "fight has just commenced...
...Commission. But what has attracted the most fire from the power companies are three bills to: 1) authorize the Public Service Commission to fix emergency rates which will return not less than 5% on the company's investment instead of the traditional 8%; 2) permit the Commission to assess costs of valuations and investigations against the companies, and 3) permit a municipality to enter the utilities business after a referendum...
...will be very difficult for the generation which found consciousness during the twenties to assess the value of this work. For, however much its editors have sought to make it an historical document, this photographic panorama of the United States since 1860 must, through its very character, remain an effort dedicated to the artful stimulation of nostalgia. Perhaps that virus, bolstered as it is by the camera and by Mr. Allen's informal chatter, will prove itself not yet exhausted by the thorough ministrations of Mr. Mark Sullivan and the self-styled humorous magazines. One is inclined to feel however...