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Minute later questions were popping so fast that Witness Gadsden found himself open-mouthed to answer one question while Chairman Black was already asking another. That, however, was the only trouble the cool little utilitarian had with his answers. Freely he testified that up to June 30 the Power lobby had spent $301,365 on its fight against the Public Utility Bill. Half of this sum had been donated by holding companies, half by Edison Electric Institute. Two Manhattan law firms were paid $75,000 each. The famed publicity firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross received...
...feel that we're on the defensive here at all," remarked Witness Gadsden. "We felt that this bill was destroying valuable property and did our best to prevent its passage, as we considered it our Constitutional right...
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...
Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
...embattled rubber industry, Goodyear, Firestone. General. Mohawk all announced 10% raises. Seiberling upped pay 5%. The Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary cut order...