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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually all have returned to the original unicameral council. To foresee the results of unicameralism in State government we need only consult the experience of our large cities, many of them more populous than a majority of the States. The record shows that unicameralism is no panacea. It will bring certain desirable results and probably some undesirable ones. More than lopping off one branch is required to make our legislative bodies function as we think they should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...went on reading: "Hugh Capet in 987 A.D. founded the royal house of France and began the line of kings who were to unite that country into a great nation. The secret of Capetian success was the fact that for hundreds of years the royal line never failed to bring forth a ruler. Every king was able to propagate his kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...time conclusions on the subject. We should not be forced to decide by abstract theory. I disagree both with private utility men who would prevent any trial of public ownership on a large scale, and with public ownership advocates who would take a course the success of which would bring the utilities to unconditional surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Schism | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems to be under way. . . . Private companies should cease coercion, in the form of obstructive litigation, inaccurate and misleading propaganda. . . . Public officials should cease coercion, as by subsidies to duplicating and competing systems, by threats of constructing duplicating systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Schism | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas of grandeur or of persecution. About half the new cases are merely too scatter-brained and gloomy to be allowed at large. U. S. doctors have been able to discover no rational, generally accepted cause for schizophrenia. And they have been generally unable to bring about cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insulin for Insanity | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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