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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year with the Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District Attorney Tom Dewey...
Chief sources of Yale's visible wealth, immortalized in such forms as its Gothic buildings and great research projects, are huge U. S. fortunes (e. g. Harkness, Rockefeller). But the bulk of Yale's endowment, like that of many another U. S. college,* comes from the gifts of sentimental old grads like Edward Benedict Cobb...
...Made as advertisements either for G. P. O. or for commercial companies, hence, like Color Flight, not eligible for trade distribution...
Last week A. G. & E. told SEC that it would: 1) eliminate 112 companies; 2) juggle its properties into two "systems"-one consisting of power properties in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia; the other in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky and Tennes see. The first "system" is already, as required by law, almost entirely "integrated" geographically, the second obviously cannot be. For this the Hopson lawyers had an "out" which will doubtless give SEC pause- they maintained that since each subsidiary was wholly located in a single State or adjoining States, the plan...
...G. & E. went on to say that it would sell or exchange 24 operating companies farther west, if SEC insisted, but would retain its Philippine properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...