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...denunciation of the President for his failure to obey the Senate but even Senator Walsh had to admit that the President had the Senate checkmated. Any further action by the Senate, he argued, would be only a "futile gesture" so long as President Hoover supported his appointees. As an indirect attack upon the three Power Commissioners a move of unlikely success was started to delete their salaries from forthcoming appropriation bills...
...York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee to dig up and magnify into a sinister link with the "power trust...
...Washington. President Hoover concluded that the Federal Government would have to renew its indirect efforts to help carry the jobless through the winter...
...Whitney, who on Oct. 24, 1929 had temporarily reversed the market by bidding $205 for Steel when it was at $190, this time was willing to bid the market-price $150. At this figure 25,000 shares were sold in a single $3,000,000 transaction, but even indirect evidence that J. P. Morgan & Co. was buying failed to halt the decline. When Mr. Whitney was obliged to announce the Prince & Whitely failure from the floor of the exchange, many a blue-chip sank below its 1929 bottom. Traders noted these prices...
...public got its first indirect introduction to Harvard's new Houses yesterday when representatives of the press of Boston and New York were taken around Lowell and Dunster and entertained at luncheon...