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...criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects of the New Deal's power gospel. Robert Healy (SEC) declared that private utilities should concern themselves more with "the production and sale of gas and electricity and less & less with the production and sale of securities...
...Other guests who partook of the hospitality of the white cottage among the murmuring pines: Nelson Cheney, New York State Senator, a Republican but an old friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly...
...like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed by the Duke Endowment, heading a powerful lobby which could swing the election, for example, of a Methodist bishop, or aid in such an appointment as that of Hoovercrat Frank R. McNinch to the Federal Power Commission...
...issue of Feb. 9, last column makes reference to J. J. Parker "Hoovercrat." 'Tis not thus. Judge Parker is an iron bound; rock ribbed; dyed in the wool; etc., Republican. Our "Hoovercrat," one of the few left of an 86,000 majority in 1928, is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, now on the Federal Power Commission. Both are esteemed citizens...
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...