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...most significant thing shown by the German national elections last Sunday," said S. B. Fay '96, professor of History, in an interview yesterday. "Since the vote for his party has declined from 37 per cent to 33 per cent of the total, Hitler has suffered his first major setback since the fall...
...many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate, by some 2,000 votes. Maine's former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster received his third big political setback. Running for Congress, he was beaten by John G. Utterback, onetime mayor of Bangor, by about 2,000 votes. Republican John Edward Nelson, ten years in the House, trailed 1,500 votes behind Edward Carl Moran. Jr, twice before defeated Democratic candidate for governor. Only Republican winner was Congressman Carroll...
...First setback to the Squires career was a royal commission appointed to investi gate the young Premier's acts in 1923 ? with the discreet result that he was permitted to retire from politics to his nourishing legal practice. In 1928 he came back, has been Premier ever since...
...Insull and Tri-Utilities collapses as well as the Kreuger scandal, the holding company theory at present is the subject of many an attack, many an inquiry. Last week from the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, the holding company theory received its 'second setback in three weeks...
...First setback was when Long Island Capital Corp. petitioned for authority to buy control of Long Island Lighting Co. Said Commission Chairman Milo Roy Maltbie in refusing to grant permission: "Experience has shown that in times of stress when assistance is most needed, holding companies are unable to give it, and in good times when funds can be secured at low rates, the operating companies do not need external assistance. The record in this case does not show that the addition of Long Island Capital Corporation to the corporate structure of the Long Island Lighting System of companies would...