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Because Mrs. Sarah Oliver Hulswit, head of an anti-New Deal crusade called the Women's Rebellion, asked (unsuccessfully) Attorney General David T. Wilentz* of New Jersey to enforce against WPA workers an old New Jersey statute (ten other States have similar laws) denying to paupers the right to vote, President Roosevelt last week grew highly sarcastic in press conference. The "ladies' proposal," he snorted, was about as democratic as it would be to limit voters to male holders of B.A. degrees. While he was on the subject he went on also to denounce poll taxes...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
...association's membership agreed to join the new one. Dissenters, whom Mr. Carlisle hopes may later reconsider: Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service, the Harley Lyman Clarke interests' Utilities Power & Light, Howard Colwell Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric, Frank Theodore Hulswit's American Commonwealths Power. Unlike the N. E. L. A., the Edison Institute will not be open to manufacturers...
Creator of American Commonwealths and its mainspring was Frank Theodore Hulswit. He was born in Grand Rapids 56 years ago, the son of a local merchant. His great-grandfather was Jan Hulswit (1766-1822), famed Dutch painter. In 1904 Frank Hulswit and Ralph Child formed the investment firm of Child-Hulswit & Co. which was dissolved in 1912. In 1910 Mr. Hulswit organized United Light & Railways Co., the nucleus of United Light & Power Co. In 1926 he was reputed to be worth $12,000,000. That year there was a great break in public utility stocks. United dropped from...
...still had control of Community Power & Light Co. and used that as the cornerstone for the American Commonwealths structure. As American Commonwealths' cash increased, it invested in other companies. Last year its holdings of United Light & Power were sufficient for Mr. Hulswit to have himself elected to the board of the company whose presidency he had been forced to surrender...
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