Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's test case arose out of an unenforced order issued by the California Railroad Commission in 1933 directing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to reduce its gas rates by $1,744,681 a year. The company got a three-judge Federal court to enjoin enforcement of the order on the ground that the commission had not properly considered the cost of reproduction in setting the rates. When the injunction was appealed to the Supreme Court last term it was upheld by a 4-to-4 decision, Justice Sutherland not voting. But after Hugo Black succeeded Willis...
...reproduction cost nearer to an open question than it has been for 40 years by remanding the case to District Court for further evidence. Chief Justice Hughes's majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite and permanent to enable counsel usefully to advise clients...
DRAMATIS PERSONAE (In order of their appearance...
...order to satisfy those skiiers who have no means of transportation to the mountains, the Boston and Maine Railroad is running fifteen snowtrains to New Hampshire and Vermont, leaving around noon Saturday and returning late Sunday...
...whole club has been drastically reorganized in order to keep pace with new developments and to provide for a growing membership which has new reached over 60. In addition to the new constitution, a college chess ladder open to all undergraduates has been organized...