Word: transferability
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...favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried to get the new commissioners to promise to dismiss Secretary Bonner. Stung by what he called these "slanderous statements" and "unwarranted attacks," Secretary Bonner informed the Senate Committee that he would request a civil service transfer to another governmental bureau. The insurgent Senators cheerfully sped...
...face of the court actions, Colonel Lea again demonstrated himself a fast thinker. To spar for time he moved to transfer the suits from chancery to Federal court. Then he "permitted" friendly receiverships against the individual papers, Memphis Appeals and Knoxville Journal, pending settlement of the action against their holding company. The receivers included executives of the papers...
According to the findings of the court, amendments which involve a transfer of power from the individual states to the United States cannot be ratified constitutionally by the same methods as those which affect merely a change in the machinery of government. Of this kind are the twelfth and the seventeenth, which vary the procedure in the election of the President or the Sehators, or those which limit powers of the state or federal governments. The constitution specifically provides for amendments of this nature, the shifting of power, and states that the proposed laws must be ratified by constitutional conventions...
...tales of the cotton picker, Moon rose to $16? a share. But Ruxtons were never produced commercially and fewer Moons have been sold this year than last. Last week Moon stock, selling at 75 cents, was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange for failure to maintain a Manhattan transfer office. A total Moon eclipse was widely predicted. Last week an end came to New Era Motors with a voluntary petition in bank ruptcy. Assets were listed at $317,000; liabilities at $855,000. Strange seemed the fact that last year New Era Motors paid a $600,000 dividend...
Surgeon General Cumming's committee decided not to recommend the transfer. But the proposal is not dead. A "continuation committee" of the conference will weigh the matter for future report to conference members...