Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Judge Wheat's court trooped attorneys for 134 of the nation's 149 Class I railroads, crying protest at what, to them, looked like a gross violation of the "due process of law" provision of the Constitution. The pension system would cost them $60,000,000 in...
Equally repugnant to Judge Wheat was the Act's provision allowing any worker hired by a railroad to count toward his pension all previous railroad service. Declared he: "To require the plaintiffs to contribute huge sums of money to be devoted to the payment of pensions and annuities based...
The announced intention of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company to close 300 stores in Cleveland would be of widespread importance and interest, even if the threat of sympathetic strikers throughout the nation did not draw attention to this latest dispute over recognition of famous section 7a of the...
Further details of the program adopted include the provision that no charges incurred before the tickets are bought will be refunded, and each House will be allowed to regulate the privilege as it sees fit.
Start in Life: Invalid. Career: A descendant of Inventor Robert Fulton, he comes from one of New England's oldest and wealthiest families. From fashionable Groton he went to Harvard where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He contracted tuberculosis in his last year (1910), had to be shipped...