Word: hagan
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...investigation under the resolution pending before the Joint Rules committee of the Massachusetts Legislature and coming up for hearing again today. The resolution, calling for an investigation by a special committee of the Legislature into various phases of the light and power industry, was filed by Representative James E. Hagan of Somerville, on petition of Daniel P. Leahy, a member of the city council of Cambridge...
Although the resolution does not specifically name Harvard, Representative Hagan, in his speech before the committee a week ago, made certain references to the relations which he claimed existed between the Harvard Business School and the National Electric Light. Association, as disclosed in an investigation last year by the Federal Trade Commission into the propaganda, activities of public utilities. It is the purpose of this article to sketch the background of that investigation and to indicate some of its disclosures...
...Rules Committees of the two houses, and according to information obtained at the State House, the hearing, begun Monday, will be continued at 11 o'clock this morning, when the opposition to the proposed bill will speak for the first time. The question of whether or not Representative Hagan's measure becomes a bill, rests with the above-mentioned committees, headed by Leverett Saltonstall '14, Speaker of the House...
Rumours which have been current throughout the winter were brought to a head yesterday afternoon, when Representative Hagan, speaking in the Massachusetts legislature, linked the nefarious interests of the Power Trust with the Harvard Business School. Hagan demanded a sweeping investigation into the activities of these companies with special emphasis upon their attempt to "invade the sacred portals of Harvard" in the exercise of their influence...
...Altho Hagan did not definitely state that this company was actively subsidizing the Harvard Business School, he more than implied as much when he declared, "We have a situation right out here in Harvard College, where the Harvard School of Business Administration, which has enormous influence upon the other educational institutions and upon the press of the country, is absolutely linked up with the power interests. The students in the course on public utilities are being filled with prejudices against public and municipal ownership, and they are being taught a theory of regulation that runs counter to the established system...