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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Convict Tom Mooney a hearing (as the Supreme Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
Quick to adopt each new improvement in fire-fighting apparatus, the successors of Truckson La France branched into chemical fire wagons, doubled their business when fire trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water...
...week, however, was a report which Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the New York Power Authority submitted to the White House. In a 400-page survey of the cost of power distribution, it declared that the average domestic rate of 6? per kilowatt hour in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England could be cut to 3½? and still leave the private utilities a "fair" profit. By certain accounting formulas which left utility operators blinking in amazement, Mr. Walsh calculated that development of the St. Lawrence Waterway power would save consumers in those States no less than...
...When You're Licked." With Pennsylvania's Reed, Ohio's Fess, Indiana's Robinson, Missouri's Patterson, Connecticut's Walcott, Rhode Island's Hebert, New Jersey's Kean and West Virginia's Hatfield, Old Deal Republicanism had been discarded by the U. S. Even Henry P. Fletcher who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, had rallied the Tories to their last stand against the New Deal, had only one spark of fire left. Said he: ''When you're licked you're licked...
...list of men elected follows: Cesar Lombardi Barber, of Bethseda, Maryland; Robert Olmstead Carleton, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles Edwin Carr, of Malden; Charles Richards Cherington, of New York; Aaron Arthur Cohen, of Long Brach, New Jersey; Harold Simson Cone, of Greensboro, North Carolina; William Frederick Ebling, of Osterville; Maurice Franks, of Lawrence; Charles Friedman Haas, of Chicago; Robert Peace Heller, of Brooklyn, New York; John Joseph Hession, of Dorchester; Thomas Harrison Hunter, of Cambridge; Reed Edwin Peggram, of Dorchester; Leo Rosenfield, of Chelsea; Richard Samuel Salant, of New York; and Robert Daniel Sard, of New York...