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Significance. After several days' cogitation even the gloomiest alarmist felt less anxiety over the enactment of an undivided profits tax. Part of this reassurance came from the fact that the Ways & Means Committee members stuck to their idea that industry must be allowed to build up some reserves as...
The brightest meteor in Canada's political sky, Ontario's blatant, spellbinding Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, amazed his Province last week and staggered his closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be...
After six months of hearings and cogitation, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week turned down the plea of the 149 Class I railroads for a 10% increase in freight rates, which the carriers claimed would up their revenues as a whole by $172,000,000. In the 5-to-4...
The plan they submitted to the Federal Court in South Bend last week bore the mark of long cogitation by their lawyers, Manhattan's famed firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. It satisfied all classes of creditors and it left Studebaker in rock-sound shape. High points:
But the jobless of the land were not to have their old bones of relief taken from them without getting something in return. After much cogitation the President last week announced his ideas of the kind of new bones Relief Administrator Hopkins would provide by May 1. A White House...