Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he would keep "the program" intact if he were elected. Now they blame Secretary of Agriculture Benson and, of course, Tom Dewey and "Eastern money" for talking Ike into breaking his promises. In eastern Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and Montana, Ike is similarly popular, while Secretary of Interior McKay and the "power trusts and bankers of the G.O.P." are the villains to public-power supporters...
Like most middle-of-the-roaders, McKay irritated extremists on both political sidewalks. The left-wing Americans for Democratic Action condemned the new program as "an ill-concealed giveaway of resources which belong to all the people," and the Fair Dealing New York Post saw "special interests . . . winning the battle of the Potomac." Columnist David Lawrence, an arch-Republican, complained that "the statement reaffirms more of the New Deal than the Old Deal...
...political hedging, McKay's statement jettisoned the Washington-can-do-it-better philosophy which dominated Federal power policy during 20 years of Democratic rule. In the final analysis, the policy of the Eisenhower Administration would be judged by the specific actions of McKay's Interior Department. So far McKay's chief decision in the field of power policy had been to favor the Idaho Power Co.'s plans for hydroelectric development of the Snake River over the Interior Department's long-standing Hell...
Canyon project (TIME, May 18). The indications are that there will be more such decisions, and that McKay's acts, like his pronouncements, will represent a cautious shift to the side of private enterprise...
First Effects. One of the first effects of the Eisenhower Administration's new power policy became evident as long as three months ago, when Interior Secretary Douglas McKay withdrew the Government's opposition to Idaho Power's plan to build three dams on the Snake River in the Northwest. Another result of the new policy is likely to be more far-reaching: all over the U.S., public-power rates may go up. For years, utility men have complained that the Government has underestimated its power costs and pegged its rates at unrealistically low levels, reflecting...