Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
...trade supremacy in Argentina threatened, Britain some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
Childless Felix Frankfurter is pleased when the hot dogs call him "Poppa." Some of their doings please Poppa completely. He is proud of the share Hot Dogs Cohen & Corcoran had in drafting the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Securities Exchange Act, both expressions of the Brandeis-Frankfurter economic crusade against bigness and irresponsibility. But NRA left Mr. Frankfurter cold and suspicious. And though he did not publicly attack the Court Plan, he wrote an indignant letter of repudiation when an article in a British magazine gave out that Protégés Cohen & Corcoran had helped originate...
Would this ultimate in rate-slashing produce a compensating increase in traffic? Although passengers provide only 10% of total U. S. train revenue, most Eastern roads get an abnormal share of their revenue from passengers (the New Haven gets 36%). For them, the success of postalized fares would probably depend on whether the bargain rates for commuters inspired an exodus to the "suburban zones...
...mainly interested in underwriting. The Exchange charged him with juggling J. A. Sisto & Co.'s books to make his personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging for Sisto Financial Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares of its stock from him at $23 a share about the same time he bought them for $15.12⅛. This sort of thing was not uncommon in the easy-going twenties. But last week SEC, District Attorney Dewey and State Attorney General Bennett launched investigations into possible criminal angles. Said Broker...