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...Michigan for months, Kennedy and his front men have been hammering home a telling point to all the state's top Democrats: Kennedy would like to balance his ticket with a Midwestern Governor whose record of liberalism can be counted on to woo the votes of labor, farmers, Negroes, minority groups. To Michigan Democrats this can only mean their outgoing, job-hunting Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams...
...same "liberal Midwestern Governor" message that Kennedy men slipped to Soapy Williams has reached Iowa's Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless, and Minnesota's Orville Lothrop Freeman-and it fits them just as aptly. Farther West, Kennedy's braintrusters have spread news that they are also considering Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, California's Senator Clair Engle, and even Arizona's Congressman Stewart Udall. South of the Mason-Dixon line, their only live entry has been Florida's Governor Leroy Collins...
Corcoran had both phoned and visited FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuykendall to discuss a case involving a $52 million pipeline for Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a subsidiary of Tennessee Gas. Commission examiners had recommended that the company's returns on investment be set at 6¼% instead of the 7% asked by the company. Kuykendall admitted that Corcoran's phone call was improper, but insisted that it "was all over before I could respond." During Corcoran's office visit, testified Kuykendall, he told the chairman that Tennessee was thinking of selling part of its stock interest...
Bennett explained that if Tennessee dropped out of Midwestern, the smaller company would have trouble financing the pipeline and would require a higher rate of return than the 7% asked for by Tennessee. Concluded Congressman Bennett: "The most charitable thing that could be said about your conversation with Mr. Corcoran, both on your part and his was that it was not only unfortunate but foolhardy and indiscreet...
...Midwestern Transmission case, Corcoran called on Kline as well as Kuykendall. Kline originally favored the examiner's recommendation of a 6^% return for the company, but several days after Tommy the Cork's call, Kline agreed to go along with the rest of the commission in postponing a decision on the rate of return. Testified Kline: "Corcoran's visit had no influence whatsoever on my decision...