Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor George Howard Earle, who pictures himself as Pennsylvania's counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly...
During four days of testimony in an air-cooled Federal courtroom, zealous Arthur Morgan repeated and amplified the charges he made against TVA Directors Harcourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal last March. He made it clear that: 1) from the beginning in 1933 he was the only one of TVA's directors who was in step, 2) Franklin Roosevelt was fully informed of the Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal rift from its inception, but did nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support...
...fashion beyond the blackest dreams of old politicos to whom Amateur O'Daniel was a radio freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would...
Within a year, Transradio news was being barked over more than 90 stations. Soon it was clear that the upstart agency had upset the plans of the publishers and press associations to limit news broadcasting. U. P. and I. N. S. decided to sell their news to commercial radio sponsors; within A. P., agitation for a similar plan was begun...
...Drennan Cravath (Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood), with the aim of raising enough money so that the 13 colleges might continue. Last week, as the aim became a reality and plans for a second drive ($330,000) were announced, Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang wired the Committee: THIS IS A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE INTEREST OF OUR AMERICAN FRIENDS . . . AND ALSO OF THEIR AFFECTION FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE...