Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt's executive actions last week consisted mainly of a letter to the Federal Trade Commission's Chairman William Augustus Ayres, requesting the Commission to investigate a "marked increase in the cost of living . . . attributable, in part, to monopolistic practices and other unwholesome methods of competition." The...
Last spring 74-year-old William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two...
One day last week President Roosevelt had a long talk with Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville...
Fortnight ago at the annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America, Frank R. McNinch, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, argued that the New Deal's power policy had proven fair and constructive because "the power industry showed a record of the greatest production and consumption...
Franklin Roosevelt had another expedient reason besides the Recession for making his peace offer. Up in the Supreme Court last week, two days after the President's proposal was made, came another and significant test case on the old problem of utility rate-fixing. The California Railroad Commission fixed...