Word: beamish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When stately Journalist Richard Joseph Beamish wrote that jingle for the Philadelphia Record in 1930 the utility whose cohorts he had particularly in mind was big Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Gifford Pinchot, elected Pennsylvania's Governor despite the "works" from Pennsylvania Power & Light, found a job for Mr. Beamish. As secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Beamish had plenty of opportunities to state his views about the public utilities. During the campaign of 1934 he wet his finger, held it up in the wind and hastily became a Democrat. So when Governor George Earle set up a new Public Utility...
There were four others, but because of his journalistic past and his beribboned spectacles and his imposing paunch, Mr. Beamish received most attention from the press. For six months he proceeded to put Pennsylvania utilities, in his own phrase, "through the wringer." The rates of Philadelphia Electric Co., for example, were lowered so as to reduce its revenue more than $3,000,000 a year. And last week he was feeling especially satisfied, for in a wild scene that would not have been out of place in a comic opera, he had at last succeeded in humiliating his old antipathy...
...beamish budget...
...ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those...