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Second Thoughts. Then it tried to get into the power business through the backdoor. Under law, the bureau is obliged to give preference in the sale of public power to such public customers as municipalities. Therefore, the bureau asked P.G. & E. to deliver some Government power to "preference customers" on a fee basis, instead of buying it and then reselling it. Black refused, saying it would simply be turning over some of his best customers to the Government. At that, the bureau went to Congress again, asking for its own transmission lines and steam plants...
...Attorney General Roy McKittrick testified that the late Charlie Binaggio offered him $50,000 to withdraw his rival candidacy to now-Governor Forrest Smith, told him: "I have to have a governor." After election, Binaggio was seen so often leaving Governor Smith's office that reporters dubbed him "BackDoor Charlie." But Binaggio failed to get a wide-open state from Smith; for his unforgivable failure, he died untidily at the hands of his bosses. Said Estes Kefauver: "I don't think we have hardly scratched the surface in showing up officials who are actually linked to and supported...
Johnson thought his not-so-subtle attempt at backdoor censorship would do the trick. In his resolution he had even lined up some examples of the men he was talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...
...Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind the scenes at the other end of town. What is little to other dailies will be big to us." Editor Maher expects that lobbyists, federal employees...
Within the usually empty corridors of this backdoor entrance favored by impecunious undergraduates, the authorities have stationed a little man with a notebook and no sense of humor. When asked about this novel practice the Elevated people said that any difficulties would be "settled between the student and the College." It is doubtful whether University Hall smiles on this fire sale saving any more than the Cambridge police...