Word: gadsden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According...
SHELTON STREET Attorney at Law Gadsden...
...operating companies are the source of income." Senator Gibson: "And the source from whence their income comes is the consumer? " Beach: "Well, that's true." If Associated Gas was unpopular before last week's investigation, afterward other utility men could have wrung its neck. Said Lobbyist Gadsden for the Committee of Public Utility Executives: "It is, to say the least, unfortunate that representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general. It is acts like this, committed by a small number of companies, which have brought discredit upon the industry...
Further testimony disclosed that, as everyone already knew, the Power lobby had employed its Constitutional right of petition to influence Congressmen against the bill by letters, telegrams, speeches, broadcasts, advertisements. But no whit of evidence was turned up to prove that Lobbyist Gadsden, descendant of the U. S. Minister to Mexico who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, had used a single dollar of his funds to purchase votes or otherwise corrupt the Congress...
Back at his office, Mr. Gadsden found that in his absence a Black committee investigator named Blomquist had ransacked both his official and personal files. "He actually went through my personal checkbook," cried the furious utilitarian. "I think it's an outrage...