Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Who Says Banks Are Unfeeling? Credit and Financial Management magazine looks for. ward to automated electronic bankmg: “It won’t be long before customers shoidd be able...
...But under House rules no measure approved by a committee can be taken up by the House until three days after a committee report on the measure has been printed...
...deButts, stated that this service should be paid for by the person who uses it, not by all of the company’s customers...
...So the leaders referred the pay raise issue to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee...
...If this principle is valid, and I would not dispute that it is, why is it not universally apblied...
...According to the magazine Datamation, the Justice Department in its initial request for documents in its antitrust suit against AT&T “asked for every piece of paper in the Bell System’s possession that was ‘prepared, sent or received since Jan...
...for three days of hearings next Monday thrdugh Wednesday...
...The committee, in turn, referred it to,an ad hoc subcommittee headed by Rep...
...But if we side with Kimble against AT&T on that issue, we must sympathize with Ma Bell on another...
...Notes from the Honeymoon A couple of months ago we expressed our suspicion that the press would be exceedingly tender toward Jody Powell...
...Profile in Courage Richard Lyck of 7he Washington Post tells how the recent pay increase was eased through Congress: “The House Democratic leaders, who favor the pay increase, feared that House members would kill it rather than face the political backlash of a vote for it...
...William D. Ford (D-Mich...
...ward to automated electronic bankmg: “It won’t be long before customers shoidd be able tc complete most of their banking transactions without any personal contact...
...This will enable banks to offer more personalized services...
...Here is Edward Walsh of The Washington Post writing about Powell’s fust briefing: “His quick wit can be combative when challenged, or can turn into a g e n t l e , self-mocking humor from which not even his boss, the President, is immurie...
...Free Enterprise for the Rich Cary Kimble wrote this periuasive letter to The Washington Star a few weeks ago i “In answerjng reporter Stephen Aug’s questions about AT&T’s policy of charging for directory assistance calls, the company’s chairman, Mr...
...1 that ‘the heavy costs of running the Bell System are loaded onto its monopoly telephone service, which is the basis of its entire operations.’ In other words, services like WATS and Telepak, which are subject to competition and available primarily to large users, are subsidized in part by services like ordinary l o n g - d i s t a n c e dialing...
...Means of Production Whenever we begin to feel that Marxism has no merit at all, some news comes along from the coal industry that gets our red blood stirring again...
...Powell, with his engaging manner and quick wit, had still managed to get through his fust full White House briefing with few, if any scars...
...The latest are these figures on .absentee ownership of land in West Virginia’s six largest coal -pr o ducing counties: Mingo 65 per cent Raleigh 70 per cent McDowell 71 per cent Logan 76 per cent Wyoming 85 per cent Boone 91 per cent In McDowell County the 71 per cent is in the hdnds of just six large outofstate corporations...
...In the unlikely event the committee approved a resolution of disapproval of the pay raise, it couldn’t be put to a House vote until after the 19th-when it would be too late...
...The full committee is expected to meet on the pay issue the day the House returns to work...
...1, 1930,’ that relates to the issues...
...The same Stephen Aug reported on Dec...
...The House then goes on a Lincoln Day recess until Feb...
Vol. 9 • March 1977 • No. 1
