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Franklin Roosevelt and Senator Burton K. Wheeler are on record as believing that most intermediate holding companies should be eliminated; Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania likes to assert that the long fingers of J. P. Morgan reach into too many crannies for the public good; SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas argues that major financing programs should always be subject to competitive bidding. Last week all three of these themes ran through the complicated story of a battle for control of rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
...vote favoring repeal in the measure's second reading on Tuesday was considered a strong indication that the legislation be placed on Governor Hurley's desk. His veto message last year and his remarks at the opening of the present session of the General Court assert his firm support of the oath...
However the Massachusetts Teachers' Union and the Society for Freedom in Teaching will attempt to bring the issue into public attention by forcing the Governor to take his stand once again. In the event of failure in this session they assert that the item will be of considerable importance in the elections for State positions in November...
...editorial hastens to assert its admiration of the College as a whole, however, terming it "the best college we've ever been to, and we don't wish we were anywhere else. While we're here enjoying it . . . as individual students, as a newspaper, we'll be chiefly interested in what's wrong with...
...Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor would hold in the face of a real banking storm even Leo Crowley does not care to assert, but in the 179 bank failures since FDIC began (nine in 1934, 26 in 1935, 68 in 1936, 28 in the first half of 1937, 48 in the second half), FDIC has paid out $44,000,000 to depositors, recovered 75% of it by liquidating the assets of the insolvent banks...