Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to test the constitutionality of the "Padlock Law," the Civil Liberties Union will Seek an injunction forcing...
Franklin Roosevelt had another expedient reason besides the Recession for making his peace offer. Up in the Supreme Court last week, two days after the President's proposal was made, came another and significant test case on the old problem of utility rate-fixing. The California Railroad Commission fixed rates for Pacific Gas & Electric which the company contends did not take into due consideration the reproduction cost of the property. Since the new rates would reduce P. G. & E.'s revenue some $2,000,000, the company got an injunction which the California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal...
...that the holding company . . . "is a fartuitous evolution from the condition of the law and marks a vital point at which the law was maladjusted to the economy . . . Thus the renovation of corporate law so as to prevent business from becoming any bigger than it can become in the test of the market is a necessity item on the agenda of liberalism." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he favors the New Real's Holding Company Bill...
...First test of U. S. response to Author Lehmann's literary career came last week when she appeared as speaker before the overflow audience which opened Manhattan's National Book Fair at Rockefeller Center. The audience begged Author Lehmann to sing...
...Most prominent test case challenging the utility death sentence is that brought by Electric Bond & Share Co. which has refused to register with the SEC as required by the Public Utility Act of 1935. This week E. B. & S. and every other utility holding company was dealt a severe blow when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Federal Judge Julian W. Mack which restrained E. B. & S. from using the mails or other means of interstate commerce unless it signed up with...