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...current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been for a year a cog in the legal staff of President Hoover's RFC. Ben Cohen had signed on to help James Landis draft the Securities Exchange Act. Thrown together on this job, Corcoran & Cohen have been inseparable since...
Proud of his handiwork and mindful that the constitution he helped draft in 1915 was submitted and turned down mostly in one big lump, Mr. Smith last week urged his fellow delegates to split up the 1938 edition for submission to the people. Result: at next fall's election, voters will have a chance to accept or reject eight main sections, and a ninth catchall containing all the rest of the convention's handiwork...
...Dewey can make the Hines indictment stick, he will be the biggest Republican in New York. Accepted as final last week were Republican plans to "draft" him for the gubernatorial nomination at the party convention which meets September 28. This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...
...court, thus in effect pick their own receiver-who generally favored stockholders over bondholders; often railroads were in as bad shape after reorganization as before. Under Section 77, ICC can insist on its own reorganization terms or rewrite plans originally submitted. ICC accepted almost wholly the trustee's draft of the Great Western plan, which will take effect Jan. 1, 1939 if approved by the Federal Court in Chicago...
...under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World War the army could not get enough Springfield rifles at home, had to turn to European suppliers. Important in industrial as well as military mobilization is a Selective Draft Act prepared for passage on M Day. Key provision so far as U. S. industry and labor are affected is a section authorizing draft boards to "exempt" any designated civilian from military service. In practice, this would mean not exemption but civilian service wherever the War Department thinks the citizen...