Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the nominations of five new Federal Power Commissioners? George Otis Smith. Claude Draper, Marcel Garsaud, Frank McNinch and Ralph B. Williamson. After the usual fussing, the Senate confirmed all five a day or two before it adjourned for the Christmas holiday. Organizing immediately as a quorum, Commissioners Smith, Draper and Garsaud promptly dismissed several old employes of the Commission. Two of them were Chief Accountant William V. King and Solicitor Charles A. Russell. Because Messrs. King & Russell had cut quite a large public figure bucking private power companies when haled...
Russell (salary $8,000) and Chief Accountant William V. King (salary $7,500). They were turned out not by the full Commission of five but by Chairman George Otis Smith and Commissioners Claude L. Draper and Marcel Garsaud organizing as a quorum of three. Also dismissed just as he was submitting his resignation was Executive Secretary Frank R. Bonner, often accused of being too friendly and lenient with private power companies seeking licenses before the old Commission...
...Carolina Democrat, the Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other commissioners: Chairman George Otis Smith, Ralph B. Williamson, Marcel Garsaud, Claude L. Draper. The McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation to the Senate. North Carolina's two Senators...
...George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years...
Other Power Commissioners appointed: Frank R. McNinch, onetime mayor of Charlotte, N. C.; Ralph B. Williamson, Washington irrigation lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, member of the New Orleans Dock Board; Claude L. Draper, organizer and member of the Wyoming Public Service Commission...