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...Federal Power Commission, that small but potent dynamo of political disturbances, generated fresh currents of news last week when President Hoover appointed its five new members. Until Congress at its last session reorganized it on a full-time basis, this Commission was composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior, Agriculture. Selected as chairman was big, wavy-haired George Otis Smith, since 1907 director of the Interior Department's Geological Survey. Maine-born and Colby-graduated, Dr. Smith learned about water power from charting and gauging streams, selecting power sites, serving as technical adviser to the old Commission. His other...
...bought St. Regis Paper Co., and was made its president. Four years later he again was head of a syndicate, this time to buy Northern New York Utilities, Inc., of which he was made chairman. For the past ten years he has gained fame as a dynamo in the electrical field, has also remained the head of St. Regis Paper which now is Niagara Hudson's largest stockholder with 16.6% of the 25,595.000 shares outstanding...
...electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder...
...While the imperial Deity, seated on a throne and demanding worship and flattery is a myth, the Super-Self of our own nobler nature, the Hidden Dynamo within mankind, can and does lead man from primitive society to the State, to the Democracy, and on to that which does not yet appear...
...from being the hypersensitive and woeful person she often appears on the stage, Actress Le Gallienne has always been busy and capable as a dynamo. Her parents were Poet Richard Le Gallienne, now of Rowayton, Conn., and the second of his three wives, Julie Norregaard, a Danish-born London journalist. Born and raised in England, Eva was a dauntless member of the Girl Guides. One night of ferocious wind, she alarmed her family by not returning home. Next morning she reported that when her tent had collapsed she had "crawled out from under and put it up again." In Paris...