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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight's news that Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. (J. P. Morgan & Co.) had acquired Frontier Power Corp. (Mellon interests) set Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York agog (TIME, Sept. 23). The news meant that 80% of New York State would now be served by one hydro-electric company. While the headlines of Governor Roosevelt's announcement that waterpower must be saved for the public from the Power Trust were still streaming across the front pages of newspapers, reporters received a novel invitation. They were invited to assemble within the precincts of No. 23 Wall Street, the House...
...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
More extraordinary, the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than...
...whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
...J. L. Reid '29, former Harvard track star and captain, took charge of the meeting. Under his direction, the new leaders practiced various Harvard cheers. Reid stated that the men available this year made excellent leaders and that he thought cheers would be well directed...