Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, D...
...Owen D. Young, puissant rajah of electrical utilities...
...Harlem: "If white candidates come nosing around your district and trying to spend money for votes, take their money and beat them too. I wish some [white] people would try to spend money in my district. We'd take every cent they had and then send them to the dry cleaners...
...Insull companies ''to pay for option, engineering reports, license and rights." Out also went a $250,000 pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...
...General Manager of the British-owned Mexicano Railway?a $50,000,000 line connecting Mexico City with the major port of Vera Cruz?is close-mouthed J. D. W. Holmes. Last week he said: "We shall not have to wait long to see the complete bankruptcy of this line if the projected labor law is enacted...