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...Deal reform, but a ghost of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. When San Francisco got Federal permission to build Hetch Hetchy (in a national park), the enabling Raker Act made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul...
...Public Powower Ickes, last week's decision was a clear mandate for San Francisco to go into the distribution business-"the proper method for meeting the requirements of the Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness...
...improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies the text. Authoress Benson a disclaiming commentary. Sometimes, when the Count's version sufficiently annoys her professional eye. she balances his account with a rendition of her own. The result is an amusing, sometimes pathetic, altogether entertaining book. The Literary Guild...
Judge Cabot was elected last spring to the Board of Overseers of the University. Since 1916 he has been Justice of the Boston Juvenile Court. He is a widely quoted and well known authority on Juvenile delinquencies and is President of the Judge Raker Foundation for research in that field of reform work...
Conferees from the Senate: Reed (Pa.), Sterling, Keyes, King, Harris, the first three being Republicans; from the House: Johnson, Vare, Vincent, Sabath, Raker, the first three being Republicans...