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...bill to compel "full publicity and information" on security issues was the handiwork of Democrat Huston Thompson, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. It was largely patterned after Britain's Companies Act. Five years in jail and a $5,000 fine awaited the crooked U. S. stock promoter or corporation official who today must be caught by the roundabout charge of "using the mails to defraud." The proposed legislation did not make all stock issues foolproof but it did attempt to divide investment sheep from speculative goats. When House hearings started on the measure during the week, Representatives...
...Issue. Has F. P. C. authority over plants to be built on non-navigable streams under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal Government? Onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, as attorney for Appalachian, argued it had no such power while Huston Thompson, onetime Federal Trade Commissioner, as F. P. C. attorney, argued that...
...independent telegraph & telephone system in France, post-War vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he was titled by Newton Diehl Baker "the greatest expert in America on the subject of telegraphic and telephonic communications." In 1915 he completed the first U. S. transcontinental telephone service, provoking Dr. John Huston Finley's poem...
...Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
...righteousness of a Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...