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...interested power tycoons to confer with him and Federal power officials on a plan whereby Government and Business, instead of engaging in disastrous competition, would pool their resources for cooperative distribution. To the White House last week went Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie, Georgia Power's Preston Arkwright, Hartford Electric's Samuel Ferguson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, J. P. Morgan's Thomas Lament, to discuss Government and Business joining in a power pool. With TVA's Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, Federal Power Commission's Frank R. McNinch and other officials...
Goodwill. At a press conference the week before. President Roosevelt's target had been corporation gifts to charity. What right had corporations, he demanded, to buy goodwill by giving away their stockholders' money? In wide circulation last week was the following response by Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power...
...there not as a Party man but as an attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson; Thomas N. McCarter, head of the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association). No one told what passed at the meetings except the President. He whispered to the Press that he had made it clear that if too much money had been...
John Stanhope Arkwright, author of the hymn "0 Valiant Hearts": knighted...
...caused by the death of William J. Harris. Governor Russell thus has the Journal's backing, while Mr. Crisp has the support of Clark Howell's Atlanta Constitution. Against him is being used the charge that, after a visit from Georgia Power Co.'s Preston Stanley Arkwright, he consented to a new provision in the revenue bill putting the electricity tax on consumers instead of producers. For him is being used the claim that he is Georgia's most distinguished statesman at the U. S. Capitol. He made a hit when instead of using his Congressional...