Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agitation for a Federal investigation of public utilities and particularly of the electric light and power industry, was begun in the United States Senate in December 1927 by Senator...
...resolution of Senator Walsh calling for a special investigation, was opposed by the organized light and power interests, specifically the National Electric Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the joint Committee of the National Utility Associations. They were joined, among others, by banking associations. A spokesman for one of these associations, Henry R. Hayes, President of the Investment Bankers Association of America, appeared before the committee on Interstate Commerce, on January 17, 1928. He argued, among other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made...
...happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...
...Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was the outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...
...this paid for? According to evidence submitted to the Federal Trade Commisson. Mr. Aylesworth, managing director of the National Electric Light Association, said at a convention in Birmingham...