Word: hopson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopson had not been captured by Representative O'Connor's agents. Instead, his attorneys had arranged to have him subpenaed by the House, on the theory that the House investigators were less rough with utility witnesses than those of the Senate...
...attempting to influence the Press on the Public Utility Bill and particularly on Associated Gas & Electric Mr. Hopson had tried the usual trick of irate business men, threatening to withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...
...time earlier this summer he had considered going to Washington to attend hearings on the Public Utility Bill, but Patrick J. Hurley, onetime Secretary of War, had advised against it on the ground that A. G. & E. "might get the works if we appear." Mr. Hopson's lawyers in Manhattan also advised him not to go to Washington because at that time he was presenting a doctor's certificate saying he was too ill to appear before the New York Legislature's utility investigating committee in Albany...
Such were a few of the admissions which Senator Black succeeded in extracting during the odd hours when Chairman O'Connor was not pre-empting the time of their joint witness, but well did Mr. Hopson know from those first brief experiences that he was in the hands of an expert inquisitor...
Alabama's Black. The true expertness of Senator Black's examination was shown by the way he made his witness give only such answers as Mr. Black desired. The first time Witness Hopson tried to explain one of his answers, Inquisitor Black shut him off: "Just state the facts. We don't want speeches here. . . . We don't want philosophy. . . . You suggested that the Administration be accused of lobbying on this bill...