Word: widener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover all New York court officers but found that the State treasury would issue appropriation only for the Ewald case. To assist in the broader investigation, the Citizen's Union raised $13,000. By last week this fund had been virtually exhausted. And Attorney...
Supreme Court. In an inconclusive decision in the Chicago telephone rate case which sent that seven-year-old controversy back to a lower Federal court for settlement, corporation lawyers thought they detected a significant inclination on the part of the High Court to widen the regulatory powers of State agencies over local utilities doing an interstate business...
...Republican split against Nominee Pinchot continued to widen when 47 of Philadelphia's 48 G. O. P. ward leaders came out for Nominee Hemphill. In Pittsburgh 25 potent businessmen, including Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., President George Stewart Davison of Gulf Refining Co. and President Arthur Luther Humphrey of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., joined political forces with Board Chairman Samuel Mathews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia to defeat Nominee Pinchot...
Success should attend this experiment in which Harvard has taken the first step. Already several companies have taken an interest in it, and Juniors wishing summer employment with business firms are being urged to make their desires known. Perhaps as the experiment progresses its field will widen, and Technology will see fit, to undertake a similar endeavor. The Tech...
...reputed to enjoy are usually more or less enmeshed in a maze of contingence and stipulations so that the University is definitely restricted to a particular policy. Such bequests as the Wyeth gift a few weeks ago, with no strings attached, create a welcome opportunity for the administration to widen its program of expansion where the need of the moment demands readjustment...