Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota Packer George A. Hormel, whose firm has net sales...
Utilities 1937 1938 American Tel. & Tel. $179,834,815 $152,037,000 Commonwealth & Southern 15,124,836 11,864,746 United Corp...
...ancient sport of bearbaiting consisted of setting dogs on a chained bruin. For the last five years Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s President Wendell Willkie, who looks rather like an amiable grizzly, has been chained by the competition of Federal utility projects and baited by the TVA pack of David Lilienthal...
Bear Willkie lost his latest chance to get free last fortnight when the Supreme Court, without passing on TVA's constitutionality, rejected the attack of Commonwealth & Southern and other utility companies on TVA's competing with their established power lines (TIME, Feb. 6). This left the privately owned utilities the choice of selling out or competing eternally with the Government-the latter choice an obvious economic impossibility...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Rollicking farce about a coy Southern belle who outsmarts Broadway's slickest wiseacres (TIME...