Word: huddlestone
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...Rayburn, nominal authors of the Public Utility Bill and enthusiastic champions of its "death sentence" clause for certain holding companies, took to conference with them PWA Counsel Benjamin Victor Cohen, young Roosevelt legalite and actual co-author of the bill. Twice that fiery little "death sentence" hater, Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, balked at the presence of a Presidential spokesman, broke up the conference by stomping out in the company of two Republican colleagues...
Died. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 55, heir to Standard Oil millions, owner of the "world's largest private swimming pool," thrice-married socialite; after long illness; in Southampton...
...House, Alabama's hollow-cheeked, hard-fisted George Huddleston got a howling ovation when, pleading for "regulation" instead of "vengeance," he ripped into both combatants. "I deplore these outside influences," barked Democrat Huddleston. ". . . Before we had the first hearing on this bill the chairman of our committee [Texas' Sam Rayburn] radioed from one end of the country to the other telling the people how bad the utilities were and how much this kind of legislation was needed...
Died. Katharine I. Harrison, 68, pioneer "highest salaried businesswoman" ($10,000 a year, 30 years ago); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Long-time secretary to Henry Huddleston Rogers, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of Standard...
...City of New York in 1889. His first notable job was with A. A. Housman & Co., stockbrokers. Thereafter Baruch's business was that of making money by his wits in Wall Street. His teachers and friends were rugged individualists of famed memory: James Keene, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Henry Huddleston Rogers...