Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission's three-year-old investigation of the electric light, gas, & power industry is now in its second, most politically explosive phase. The first phase was investigating the industry's propaganda in schools, colleges and the Press (TIME, July 16, 1928 et seq.). Then the investigators tackled the more difficult job of ascertaining the financial set-up of the industry, the relationship between holding and operating companies, stock ownership, management fees, interlocking directorates. After a year's secret work, the investigators are now ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will...
...London, where some of the world's greatest swindles are performed (Londoner Clarence Hatry still holds the record with his $67,000,000 job-TIME, Oct. 21, 1929 et seq.), Justice dealt in Old Bailey Court last week with Brynar James Owen. Swindler Owen, soon after the recent Imperial Conference of the Empire Prime Ministers (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), walked into the office of International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Ltd. He said that he was the director of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering & Research at Oxford University, a project financed by the Ministry of Agriculture. This...
...American Red Cross last week, just before its 50th anniversary, was in the hands of diagnosticians.* Public apathy toward last winter's drive for $10,000,000 for Drought relief and the fierce criticism of the U. S. Senate (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.) made the brains of the organization, Chairman John Barton Payne and his Central Committee, suspect that they did not look well, were systematically deranged, might need a purge...
...Manhattan hearing last week sat his wife, who is John Pierpont Morgan's sister. She knew that this cancer dogfight was distracting Mr. Satterlee from his battle to get back for depositors the savings they entrusted to the failed Bank of U. S. (TIME, Dec. 22 et seq.). She knew how he had got into the cancer fight: at Lawyer Durbrow's request. Mr. Satterlee had organized the New York Better Health Foundation. Then he had learned of harsh medical opposition to the Coffey-Humber work. Why should they not have opportunity to work in New York...
...Holmes, Manhattan preacher and civic reformer.† Once a Unitarian, Dr. Holmes became an independent in 1919. Friend of many a Jewish leader, he is especially close to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, with whom he lately agitated against Manhattan's dapper Mayor James John Walker (TIME, March 23 et seq.). Three of his works are included in the Reformed Hymnal. One stanza, in his hymn No. 76, is not recommended by the committee...