Proposed Extension of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation: Apr. 10-May 23, 1947U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 |
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1944 maturities adjustment plan approval April August Baltimore & Ohio bankruptcy Bankruptcy Act BAUKHAGES capital cash CHAIRMAN chapter XV CHESTON CLAY collateral trust bonds Congress contingent interest convertible bonds counsel creditors directors district court exchange date extend fact faith Federal Loan Administrator files GOODLOE hearing held HENDERSON Interstate Commerce Commission issue January January 15 January 31 Jones Judge July L'Heureux letter lien matter McDONALD McLaughlin Act meet memorandum ment mortgage bonds obligations Ohio Railroad opinion outstanding paid payment percent Petitioner Phillips position preferred stock present principal amount prior proceeding purchase pursuant question Railroad Division railroad loans Reconstruction Finance Corporation record refunding reorganization RFC loan RFC's ROBERTSON of Virginia Senator BUCK Senator CAPEHART Senator FULBRIGHT Senator MAYBANK Senator MCCARTHY Senator ROBERTSON Series sinking fund SNODGRASS statement SULLIVAN Supplemental Indenture testimony tion United States Senate vice president WHITE
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Page 636 - Along the emblazoned wall. This was the bravest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth's philosopher Traced, with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
Page 637 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 217 - The report shall also show specifically any program, expenditure, or other financial transaction or undertaking observed in the course of the audit, which, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, has been carried on or made without authority of law.
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Page 562 - Any such railroad may obligate itself in such form as shall be prescribed and otherwise comply with the requirements of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the corporation with respect to the deposit or assignment of security hereunder, without the authorization or approval of any authority, State or Federal, and without compliance with any requirement, State or Federal, as to notification...
Page 637 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 636 - With the incarnate Son of God. O lonely tomb in Moab's land! O dark Beth-peor's hill! Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still. God hath his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him he loved so well.
Page 258 - DC, then and there to testify what you may know relative to the subject matters under consideration by said Committee.