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...likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants), and the Electric Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case to come before one of the new special three-judge tribunals from which...
Last year Amishmen and Mennonites of East Lampeter Township, Pa. petitioned the Government not to grant $56,200 of PWA money to their school board for a consolidated school. Their petition failing and the school completed, the Mennonites were about to defy the law and keep their children at home last month, when Pennsylvania's liberal Governor George Howard Earle came to the rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give...
...suits brought by Southern power companies (Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes, Duke Power Co. & Southern Public Utilities Co. v. Greenwood County) which will determine whether PWA-financed projects supplying electricity may compete with privately owned companies...
...budget statement President Roosevelt announced that he had definitely clamped the lid on two of the New Deal's biggest honey pots, RFC and PWA. They will not be liquidated but their spending days are over. Each will carry out commitments now on the books but further loans or grants are to be barred...
...Brooklyn College moved into a new $6,000,000 home in Flatbush-a 42-acre campus and five new buildings, academic, science, library, gymnasium, power plant -built by the city and PWA...