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...vote margin last month the Senate had approved vital Section 11 of the Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility Bill, providing that unessential holding companies more than one degree removed from operating companies should be dissolved by the Securities & Exchange Commission within seven years. This was precisely what President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes...
...Senator Brown put into the record copies of complicated contracts between operating utilities and their affiliates by which the operating companies paid 2½% of gross earnings for management, 7½% of gross cost of constructing plant and equipment, 1½% of the cost of all purchases, a 30% margin of profit on sales of electric appliances to their affiliates- to illustrate ''how the profits of an operating utility can be siphoned out by a holding company." "It is," the Senator declared, "merely a scheme whereby the local utility does the same business it did originally...
...that occasion three Crimson runs and with them the margin of victory were protested by the Tigers on the basis of a misinterpretation of the ground rules by the umpire...
Three hits, two walks, two errors by the infield, and the pitcher's hesitation on a double-play ball were enough to give Holy Cross three unearned runs in their half of the fourth. Adding three additional tallies and stifling Harvard's attempted rallies the Crusaders held the margin of victory throughout the remainder of the contest...
Thirty-six Senatorial votes-three more than necessary-had long since been counted to sustain the veto and the margin of error in this calculation was conceded to be very small. Nevertheless, up to the Capitol, day after the House vote, marched Postmaster General Farley to lunch with Majority Leader Robinson, help hold the Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor...