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Last month President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the nominations of five new Federal Power Commissioners??? George Otis Smith. Claude Draper, Marcel Garsaud, Frank McNinch and Ralph B. Williamson. After the usual fussing, the Senate confirmed all five a day or two before it adjourned for the Christmas holiday. Organizing immediately as a quorum, Commissioners Smith, Draper and Garsaud promptly dismissed several old employes of the Commission. Two of them were Chief Accountant William V. King and Solicitor Charles A. Russell. Because Messrs. King & Russell had cut quite a large public figure bucking private power companies when haled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate Checkmated | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...efforts of those who are seeking by sinister and subtle means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this the 1,000 commissioners???half ministers, half elders?at Cincinnati stood up and yea-ed most heartily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...renger and the American Commissioners???Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Kellogg, Senator Smoot, Representative Theodore E. Burton and their colleagues?last week signed an agreement in the following terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Again | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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