Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undecided, Although utility men do not contest the right of the Government to fix their rates, they argue lustily about the method used to value their properties for rate-making purposes. Instead of reproduction cost the New Deal would like to have valuations based on what the properties would have cost under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion...
...Hurley left his office for a couple of days, ambitious and rambunctious Lieut. Governor Francis E. Kelly moved into the Governor's office, summoned the Governor's secretary, directed him before delighted newshawks to call the heads of the State's utility companies together for a rate conference. When Secretary Paul Ryan declined, Lieut. Governor Kelly sent out the invitations himself. When the utility executives also declined, irrepressible Francis E. Kelly loudly charged Governor Hurley with "lack of cooperation" and jealousy because in last year's election Kelly polled more votes...
...Whitney Museum, a memorial show of the water colors of Charles Demuth surrounded a festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris...
...Tennis Association, ruling body of U. S. amateur tennis, keeps a sharp eye on all promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom started playing first-rate tennis before they were 18 (junior-division age limit). The age limit for the boys' division is 15, but there is no law against a boy or a junior playing in an older division. Vincent Richards won the U. S. men's doubles championship with William T. Tilden...
Eating in a local, second-rate restaurant at approximately 1:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the reporter noticed a young man eating a plain lunch with milk to drink. Because of his "extra-ordinary good looks," the man in a brown suit, carefully dressed, attracted Ball...