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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More mysterious has been the abrupt decline of the Giants, who did exactly the same thing last year. Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle supplied a shrewd diagnosis: the Giants with brilliant pitchers, good fielding but no remarkable batting power, rarely win or lose by a large margin and four months of close games wear them out before the season is over. The Cubs, almost ignored in pre-season pennant predictions, were last week still scorned by the Cardinals and the Giants. Meanwhile a Cub pitcher named Bill Lee took first place in the League pitching averages with 15 victories, 5 defeats...
...bill designed to enlarge, improve and advance the powers of Tennessee Valley Authority. The Senate passed the measure last May. The House Military Affairs Committee, having heard many grievous charges against TVA by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, June 3), first tabled the bill, then by a slim margin reported it out in a revised version. As they came before the House, these TVAmendments, instead of enlarging, considerably restricted TVAuthority...
...half games ahead of the Detroit Tigers, who, similarly placed a year ago, won the 1934 pennant comfortably. Said Detroit's aggressive Manager Mickey Cochrane, after his team had just won ten games in a row: "I believe we will win the pennant by a wider margin than we did last year. ..." Far less confident was Manager Walter Johnson of the Cleveland Indians who, picked by most experts to win the pennant, were floundering in fourth place. Said he: "Trosky has been a terrible disappointment. So has Hale. But I think my greatest agony is Pearson. . . ." The Chicago White...
...vote margin last month the Senate had approved vital Section 11 of the Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility Bill, providing that unessential holding companies more than one degree removed from operating companies should be dissolved by the Securities & Exchange Commission within seven years. This was precisely what President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes...
...Senator Brown put into the record copies of complicated contracts between operating utilities and their affiliates by which the operating companies paid 2½% of gross earnings for management, 7½% of gross cost of constructing plant and equipment, 1½% of the cost of all purchases, a 30% margin of profit on sales of electric appliances to their affiliates- to illustrate ''how the profits of an operating utility can be siphoned out by a holding company." "It is," the Senator declared, "merely a scheme whereby the local utility does the same business it did originally...