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...mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
...come when a more scientific and businesslike method of tariff revision must be devised. Toward this the new flexible provision takes a long step. ... If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask [Congress] for further authority for the [tariff] com-mission...
...Corp., hundred-million-dollar group-banking unit (TIME, Sept. 30). It also was partly a Marine Midland holding company and partly an investment trust. Inasmuch as the bankers and the utility men were operating in the same northern New York district there was be tween them an obvious geographical com munity of interest. It is also true that both Niagara Share and Marine Union collided with the 1929 Stockmarket collapse, securities for which Niagara had paid some $100,000,000 during the year having declined to a value of some $70,000,000 at its close and securities for which...
Suspicious Eye. Not so friendly to the treaty was Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Com mittee. A Big-Navy man, Senator Hale called his committee together to make an independent inquiry into its effects upon the Navy. The Hale hearings have no official standing, are for the patent pur pose of drumming up treaty opposition, if any, by staging a publicity sideshow. As Witness No. 1, Senator Hale summoned Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, a London delegate, to explain and elucidate. Later would be called Admirals William Veazie Pratt and Hilary...
This the Great Northern R. R. did last week. If a corporation can be sorry, Great Northern must be sad to see President Ralph Budd go (he sails June i for Mos cow). He knows every part of his com pany, has tended it tenderly. Indeed the announcement at Chicago read: "The invitation to go to Russia was extended to Mr. Budd by the Soviet Government be cause the topography of the Great North ern Railway is said to greatly resemble that over which many Russian railroads...