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...Fix disability pensions at from $6 to $275 per month, death pensions from...
With insurance companies suspending farm foreclosures and Federal agencies promising further relief to the mortgage-ridden West, hardly anybody last week noticed a fix that mortgages had got a group of New York companies into-until they slipped out of it. In Manhattan Owen D. Young announced the formation of a Realty Stabilization Corp., with a capital of $10,000,000 and an R. F. C. credit of $100,000,000, to rehabilitate the city's real estate and make it selfsupporting. Immediate purpose of the corporation, however, is to tide guaranteed-mortgage companies through the embarrassing task...
Leading New Orleans bankers and State officials went into an all-night huddle. President Hecht, a swart, smallish man with glistening black hair and a thick cropped mustache, was in a tight fix. For years he fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years...
...tariff rate would not fix the excise tax. During an initial marketing period after the bill's passage, the following would become "fair maximum prices...
...injunction was obtained against the securities order. The rate controversy went before a three-judge Federal Court. Last week the court gave a 2-to-1 ruling that the Public Service Commission has the right to fix rates-but that the 30? rate was confiscatorv. It also set the assets of the companies involved midway between the Doherty figure of $93,000,000 and the Commission figure of $73,000,000. It upheld the right of Henry L. Doherty & Co. to charge management fees (of prime importance to all utility pyramids) but said that the fees would have...