Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole act would simply give us a more effective administrative machine for the carrying out of the policies of government," George S. Pettee '26, instructor in Government, said last night in a Guardian broadcast over WAAB in which he urged the passage of the recently shelved Government Reorganization Bill...
Opposition to the bill, Pettee said, "has lain largely in the vague distrust of the President aroused by the Court Plan, and by loose talk on the subject of dictatorship." He concluded that "there is no real danger of dictatorship in any part of the Bill...
...much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank Merriam whenever he shows what they regard as partiality for Standard. Year ago, when a bill was passed prohibiting whip-stocking off Huntington Beach, Culbert Olson and his friends were pleased. But in the meantime Standard had whip-stocked out $5,000,000 worth of oil. Last October. Governor Merriam collected $518,000 royalties for the State-far too little, thought Culbert Olson...
...months ago, the Legislature passed a bill that was Mr. Merriam's personal solution of the problem. It provided for a State Lands Commission to receive bids; but because it prohibited all drilling except by whip-stocking, the chief company that could submit bids was Standard Oil. Culbert Olson blew up. He will probably be the next Democratic candidate for Governor; Frank Merriam will probably be the Republican candidate. No Californian doubts what will be the prime campaign issue...
...money from First Income, Continental, and (more than a third) from Reynolds itself. The control stocks of Continental and Reynolds, said Mr. Ballantine, had no asset values, the prices were excessive and the sellers should have known that some raid on the companies' assets was planned. Further the bill of complaint specified other interesting uses of Continental's funds: to buy all stock of Corporate Administration, Inc., substantially the only asset of which was a management contract with Administered Fund Second, Inc.: to buy stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little...