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...affiliation with the Society, "that the dignity of his office may not be abused to lend prestige to any movement hostile to the interests of legitimate trade unionism." A similar resolution was dispatched to the Chief Justice, the leftist Guild being entirely willing to let the Society keep Herbert Hoover...
This indisputable fact has lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract...
...Commission then intervened in the case to attempt to convert the Supreme Court to the "prudent investment" concept. This week, while the Court will be pondering the case, President Roosevelt will discuss his rate-making ideas at the White House with a platoon of potent powermen, as did Mr. Hoover...
Died. Atlee Pomerene, 73, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Democratic Senator from Ohio, prosecutor, with Owen Josephus Roberts, of Teapot Dome oil lease cases under Calvin Coolidge, board chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Herbert Hoover; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...
Undaunted by the heavy weather, ex-President Herbert Hoover held to his intention to attend Saturday's game as the guest of President Conant, and braved the elements to help root the Crimson to a victory...