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...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...
Marseilles is a work of Marcel Pagnol (Topaze), originally titled Marius. One reason for the acclaim which the play received in Paris was the Provençal dialect of most of its actors. This effect, of course, is completely lacking in the U. S. production, somewhat limiting the power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana...
...guests. At similar occasions in the past members of Dunster House have had opportunities to hear men like Bernard Fay, distinguished French critic, and Giuseppe de Lellis, pianist. Fay who is the author of "Benjamin Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times," addressed the house recently on the subject of Marcel Proust...