Word: commonwealths
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Fifth in a series of statistical analyses of criminal careers undertaken by Professor and Mrs. Glueck since 1925, this latest investigation, supported and published by the Commonwealth Fund, New York, carries forward for ten years the study of "One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents," 1934, covering the boys' first five years after appearance in Boston Juvenile Court. The new follow-up research, which involved the tracing and interviewing of hundreds of men, as well as difficult statistical reduction of the case histories, appears today under the title "Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up." behavior of the offender and his reaction to different kinds...
...witness stand and asked if he had "incited to riot" because he had told two other students who had just been arrested to "keep their chins up," Judge Stone replied, "You're not charged with inciting to riot. You are charged with having disturbed the peace of the Commonwealth by making loud noises and outcries...
...among the lowest in the U. S. Politically, the company's two top figures are white-thatched, personable President Preston Stanley Arkwright and bulky, pervasive Fred B. Wilson, assistant to Mr. Arkwright. Neither able Mr. Arkwright nor Uncle George is entirely independent. Georgia Power is a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., whose president is GOProspect Wendell Willkie. As a subsidiary, Georgia Power is subject to the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935 and SEC regulation. Last week this set of circumstances generated some high-voltage news...
...Adams narrative gives special emphasis to the two great political concerns of Britain in the 19th Century: colonies and reform. In the development of Australia, of Canada, of New Zealand, of India, Adams sees and insists on the greatness of early Victorian statesmanship, which worked out the democratic Commonwealth of Nations...
Last December, an argument over utility equity financing was precipitated by SEC's mooted Consumers Power decision (TIME, Jan. 8), in which Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern (Consumers' parent) was told he could not raise $10,000,000 of new money by selling Consumer bonds, should sell stock instead. Willkie, who agrees that equity financing is desirable, argued that the public would not buy stocks at reasonable prices, while they are willing to take bonds at low rates. The issue over equity financing boiled down to a question: could common stocks be sold at reasonable prices...