Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly-paid lawyers" of the utility industry's trade association are none other than Democrat Newton Diehl Baker and Republican James Montgomery Beck. Soon after the Grubb ruling last week Edison Electric Institute released a 57-page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley...
Donald Budd Armstrong, Jr. '37, of Searborough, New York, Perry James Culver '37, of Exeter, New Hampshire, John Howard Eric '37, of Stamford, Connecticut, and William Esmond Rowley '37, of Newton Centre, are Sophomore candidates for election to the Lowell House Committee, it was announced yesterday by Wilton S. Burton '36, secretary of the committee. Additional candidates for the election, which will be held on Wednesday, December 12, may be named by the presentation of a 25-signature petition to Burton before Sunday night...
...eggs sold last week brought from $525 to $1,315 apiece. Like first folio Shakespeares, each had an individual history. One was found by the late great Alfred Newton in a box at the Royal College of Surgeons. Lady Cust got another for five francs in a French shop. A third belonged to Captain Cook, the explorer...
...action of the Council came as a result of a demand from the commuters for a non-resident representative on the Council. The representative elected last year, Robert C. Hall '36, although listed as living in Newton at the time of his election, deprived the commuters of a non-resident delegate by moving to Lowell House this fall. Until the spring elections have given the commuters an official vote, Canter will support the commuter interests, not as another Council member, taking Hall's place, but merely as an ex-officio representative. Hall will still maintain his place as a Councilman...
...estimate of small John J. Holden, 39, of how much money he had ever owned at one time. For four years, since he lost his job in a knitting mill, he had earned almost nothing. He lived with his old mother in a ramshackle little house in Newton, Mass. Lately he put 3¢ on a number lottery, used his winnings to buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. When he heard that his ticket had won him $75,000 he thought first of an automobile, a store, some new clothes, college for the twin boys of his widower brother. Then he began...