Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the President quipped that Electric Bond & Share's long-awaited acquiescence to SEC's holding company regulations showed that the utilities' "death sentence" was really a "health sentence" (see p. 56) a newshawk asked: "You wouldn't call it a life sentence...
...agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., Senatorial Candidate...
...invitation, at their meetings. Mr. Downey liked the Doctor's monthly-spending provision-to speed trade velocity. When EPIC crashed, Sheridan Downey became attorney for the Doctor and his Plan. The Doctor's subsequent flirtations with Father Coughlin, Gerald Smith (inheritor of Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" movement) and Representative William Lemke cooled Attorney Downey. He and the Doctor drifted apart...
...last week the commission had decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
Biggest crab apple in the barrel of discord has long been Electric Bond & Share Co., which led the fight against the Public Utility Holding Company Act ("death sentence") requiring that utility empires be reorganized into geographically integrated systems with no more than one intermediary holding company between the operating companies and the top. But last spring the Supreme Court ended a long SEC-E.B. & S. court fight by deciding that the clause of the act requiring all the holding companies to register with SEC was constitutional...