Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative O'Connor's investigation of lobbying for and against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...
Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore...
TIME'S article, July 22, "Ouster Aftermath," about my being "dissatisfied with the disrespectful treatment'' of instructors of Omaha Municipal University toward private ownership of public utilities is absolutely erroneous. Whether the professors were for or against private ownership never came to my notice. In the years of my connection as regent of Municipal University or its predecessor I never discussed with a member of faculty or student body or regents any public utility subject except in one instance, when I approved before all nine members of Board of Regents the subject of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...first aftermath of the Peace Strike, several members of the Freshman Union Society will attempt to expunge from the minutes the Society's support of the Strike, it was learned from reliable sources last night...
...dust there is drought. The records of the Weather Bureau already showed it. The Pacific Coast and Far West had their quota of moisture. So had the States bordering the Mississippi from Iowa southward. But the vast belt that lay between was, for the most part, a parched aftermath of the 1934 drought (TIME...