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...frantic advertisements, leaflets, letters and personal canvassing, utilities investors were obediently showering telegrams and letters by the thousands on their Representatives. Under Philip H. Gadsdeh, chairman of the Committee of Public Utility Executives, Power had put a small army in the field at Washington. Scripps-Howard Correspondent Ruth Finney reported that the Power lobby (600) outnumbered Congress (527). Between holding companies battling for life and President Roosevelt battling for principle it was to be a finish fight...
Died. Warren Wesley Finney, 62, Emporia, Kans. banker, convicted embezzler, father of Bond Forger Ronald Finney (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933, et seq.); by his own hand (pistol); in Emporia. When peace officers came to his summer cabin last week to take him to the penitentiary, Mrs. Finney's plea for "one more hour" was granted. The officers returned to find Warren Finney sprawled on the floor, a bullet hole through both temples, a mirror propped before...
Score: Sage 30, Lowell 14. Goals Reno 3, Sprang 7, Dunbar 11, Cooley 7, Smith 2, Bates 8, Stern 2, Abel 4. Referee: W. Finney...
...Finney last week came $23 from the sovereign State of Iowa. It was an old-age pension check? the first he had ever received, the first Iowa had ever paid. It marked the start of Iowa's new old-age pension system which will distribute up to $25 per month to indigent persons over 65. The money is raised by a $2-a-year head tax on all lowans over...
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.* In six States pensions are optional with each county, which pays at least part of the cost. In the other 22, pension laws are mandatory and the aged, over 65 or 70. get from a maximum of $390 a year in New Hampshire to a minimum of $150 a year in North Dakota, provided they can prove their need...