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January 9, 1938

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UTILITIES DIVIDED ON SEC REGULATION; Some Prepare to Step Into Line, While Others Await Final Legal Tests EYE BOND AND SHARE CASE Hold-Outs Pin Last Hopes on 'Death Sentence' Fight--Cooperation Also is in the Air

By Thomas P. Swift

With the gradual crumbling of utility litigation against the regulatory, and at times competitive, measures inaugurated in the last few years by the New Deal, the $12,000,000,000 electric power and light industry faces 1938 with many shattered illusions.

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COLUMBIA SUBDUES YALE EASILY, 44-29; Successfully Opens League Basketball Campaign and Remains Unbeaten

By Francis J. O'Riley

Columbia's basketball team opened its Eastern League season with a decisive 44-29 victory over Yale at the Morningside gymnasium last night. It was the fifth victory of the season for the Lions, only unbeaten college team in the metropolitan district.

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FLORIDA'S SEASON ON; Tourists Flocking to the State's Varied Assortment of Winter Diversions

By Harris G. Sims

LAKELAND, Fla. WINTER visitors are at play all over Florida. Many others, after spending Christmas at their own firesides, rushed South to join in the New Year's parties that moved the season toward its peak.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Close Strong, Leaders Advance 1 to 3 Points; Corporate Bonds Up--Wheat and Cotton Gain

By Unknown Author

The stock market was active and strong from the start yesterday, and at the end of the two-hour session prices approximated the best levels of the day. Leading issues closed with net gains of 1 to 3 points, with the steel, motor and metal groups in particular...

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TALENT IN THE WINGS; SEARCHING FOR TALENT IN THE WINGS

By Antoinette Perry

Work of Apprentice Theatre and Studios Groups discussed

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Notable Births

1938Claudette Boyer, Canadian educator and politician (died 2013)^[†]

Claudette Boyer was a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1999 as a Liberal, but was later forced to leave the party as a result of legal difficulties. She retired from politics in 2003.