Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress created the job of U. S. Comptroller General and gave him the duty of passing on all Government expenditures to make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill...
...Washington, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold filed a brief explaining why the eight major motion picture companies, named last July in the Government's suit charging violation of the anti-trust law, were not entitled to a bill of particulars...
...false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment house which "A. P." unloaded in accord with the banking law divorcing underwriting from deposit banking. Such deals have caused rumor that Bancamerica's new Chairman Stewart is merely a Giannini frontman. He is more than that. Born on a Missouri farm in 1881, he made a fortune in San Francisco real estate, has lately majored in mortgages and mines...
...bought an annuity bond business, now has branches in 57 cities with 2,000 salesmen in the field selling certificates with a face value of some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...
...Schroeder had tested Mrs. Hayden's brother-in-law, George Mohr, and knew that he had Type IV blood. George Mohr was waiting in the reception room. "Bring in the donor," called Dr. Schroeder to a nurse. The nurse phoned a hospital employe, who ran to the reception room. There, nervously pacing the floor, was Arthur Fuller, Type II, waiting to give a transfusion to his mother. "Come along," said the employe...