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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair...
-*The U. S. Civil Service Commission last week warned its 533,325 classified Federal employes to abstain from political campaigns.
In residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to...
Former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 38-year-old Landis came to Harvard to head the Law School last fall.
...assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will be cut from...