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...Baltimore last week Federal Judge William Caldwell Coleman declared the Public Utility Act of 1935 void "in its entirety" (see p. 61). The immediate consequences of that decision affected utilities and the stock market, but its ultimate effect may well concern Franklin Roosevelt...
Meanwhile Il Duce had batches of musty treaties and agreements dug up by his Foreign Office to prove that Italy can treat whatever Fat Chaps has been granted as null and void...
...party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried Salisbury's son, urging that 350,000,000 Indians should remain under the benevolent rule of British civil servants...
Rather than boost rates to consumers so that Hydro could honor these sour contracts, Premier Hepburn proposes by act of the Ontario Parliament to repudiate them as "illegal, void & unenforceable...
...obligation of the Province. The money was sunk in tremendous hydro-electric developments up & down the rivers of Quebec. Last week, after weeks of preliminary rumblings, Premier Hepburn uprose in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto and begged leave to introduce a bill repudiating the contracts one & all as "illegal, void and unenforceable." While there appeared to be some question whether Hydro had not exceeded its authority, the Premier took no chance with the courts: his bill included a ban on suits against the Government...