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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This blast from quiet Senator Fred Her bert Brown of New Hampshire played its part in persuading Congress to pass the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ("death sentence"). Howard Hopson, lying low ever since he was spanked by the Black investigation for lobbying against the Act, has left to his more conventional brethren in utilities the job of fighting the death sentence. Last week that fight was apparently over. Having battled unavailingly up to the Supreme Court, all the major utilities submitted plans for slicing themselves up in accord with the death sentence. For the occasion it pleased...
...farther west, if SEC insisted, but would retain its Philippine properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...
...crony, Ernest B. Warriner, became General's president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem, in the end, to be 'unlucky...
...Progressive," organ of the Student Union, was distributed free of charge Saturday to familiarize the public with its revamped, enlarged format...
Naming widespread political education and specialized civil training as the solution of the American public service dilemma, in two resolutions from the senior and junior delegates, the three day Guardian conference on the Public Service came to a close Saturday afternoon...