Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver contingent got off to a bad start when its treasurer, rich young Broker Charles Boettcher II (kidnapped in 1933 by Napper Verne Sankeyj turned up in St. Louis with the tale that he had lost in transit the $100,000 certified check which was to have cinched his city's bid. This yarn fizzled when the folk back home revealed that the check was for only $26,650, that it was never lost, that the episode was "a joke which somebody took seriously." More creditable was Denver's stunt of exporting a bevy of beauties to distribute...
...cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman (see cut') and a dockside loafer who chirped, "Hello, Judge," the handsome, white-whiskered Chief Justice boarded the Great Lakes Transit Corp.'s steamer Juniata, cruised to Duluth, entrained for the West...
...interstate commerce has really important implications. Why are so many of these telegrams futile? Because people don't understand the implications of the Court's decision. The Court has practically gone back to the old Knight case of 1885 which limited "interstate commerce" to goods in transit. Since then, the Court has made the interstate commerce clause apply to a great many things not only in transit but affecting interstate commerce. When the Constitution was written the country was in the horse and buggy stage. There was no interstate commerce to speak of. ... There was no problem...
...last few years the only publicly-owned stock in United Electric Light & Power Co., a Consolidated Gas subsidiary, has been owned by the wife of Thomas E. Murray Jr., currently receiver for Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. All the rest of the stock was owned indirectly by Consolidated Gas. But merger of United Electric with other Consolidated power properties operating on the island of Manhattan was blocked by Mrs. Murray. Not that Mrs. Murray refused to sell her stock: she obligingly offered it to Consolidated last winter-at $4,500 per share...
...fact we are so little disheartened by the poll that we will probably continue to send down delegations of young adolescents, who don't try particularly to show off their intelligence to Smith. Connecticut weekends, et al. They haven't sent any back yet as goods damaged in transit and the "Daily News" may go merrily on with its polls...