Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peggy and I had long conversations on this," he remarked. "This Caliban's a rebellious guy, and that's the idea people must get. I thought I could get away from the Negro angle of it. I hoped I could open up things for the Negro never opened up before...
...Francis Biddle, who painfully remembers his last clash with Avery, was not quite sure how to regard Avery's present position. In the course of one short press conference, Biddle referred once to Avery as "perfectly harmless," a few minutes later was describing him as "a tough old guy who will stick to his guns." At week's end, irreconcilable old Sewell Avery trumpeted that a court test of the President's powers was what he wanted most...
...week became the first state in the union to have all of its power companies in effect publicly owned. The last private-power company, Omaha's Nebraska Power Co., was bought by a group of Omaha citizens, thanks to the free but personally profitable enterprise of Utility-Promoter Guy C. Myers. But Nebraska Power Co. had not moved easily from its private moorings. In its glacier-slow passage from private to public hands, Nebraska Power split the citizens of Omaha into warring groups, at times chilled even the enthusiasm of Promoter Myers. But Promoter Myers does not stay chilled...
...Guy Myers got it for them, chiefly from the investment bankers who had helped finance his other private-into-public-ownership deals in Nebraska. As security, the bankers received $15.6 million of short-term notes of the Loup River Public Power District of Nebraska, a part of the "little TVA." Loup River in turn got what it wanted, a contract to sell power to Nebraska Power. Myers did not forget himself. His fee: $500,000, of which he will clear some...
...fight is not entirely over. Mayor Butler thinks that the city can save money by acquiring the company by condemnation, instead of from the Myers' group. Omaha will not vote on this until spring. But in any case Guy Myers has finished his work in Nebraska. There is nothing more to sell...