Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
Chairman Leo Thomas Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was about to leave his room in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder one day last week and go downstairs to address the Wisconsin Bankers Association, when someone rapped on his door. In stepped a process server with a subpoena. Would Mr. Crowley please come right away? The Grand Jury could not wait. Mr. Crowley shook his head. frowned, remonstrated, finally went. While the Wisconsin bankers thrummed their fingers for 30 minutes, the Grand Jury extracted from Mr. Crowley all he knew about closed banks in Milwaukee county. Then and then only...
...time, but has almost consigned to oblivion our ancient habit of pork barrel legislation; to that we cannot and must not revert. ... It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process of recovery, I am greatly hoping that repeated promises that private investment and private initiative to relieve the Government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled. We have not imposed undue restrictions upon business. We have not opposed the incentive of reasonable and legitimate...
Hardly a week goes by that lawyers do not discover some new and unexpected wrinkle in the Securities Act of 1933. Last week they found something which looked like bad news for stock exchanges, already in the process of being engulfed by the Securities Exchange Bill of 1934 (see above). By reading Section 2 of the 1933 Act defining an offer to sell with Section 5 forbidding delivery of unregistered securities in interstate commerce, said the lawyers, it might be illegal to trade in securities on a "when, as & if issued" basis. In any event clients had better ask Baldwin...
...which gave them a free trip to experience, completed the demoralizing process. After the Armistice they came back to Greenwich Village, whence they escaped again when they could, to Europe and the country of little magazines. "In those days young American writers were drifting everywhere in Wrest Europe and Middle Europe; they waved to each other from the windows of passing trains." Back from Europe again, forced home either by economic pressure or half-confessed nostalgia, the Lost Generation found itself unwilling to go all the way home to its various Midwestern birthplaces, congregated in Manhattan, cynically took jobs...