Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Secretary of the Interior is ex-officio a member of the Federal Power Commission, it came to pass that Mr. Insull's lawyer, long a stockholder in the Middle West Utilities Co., sat last week upon that Federal tribunal to which that Insull company had to apply for a licence to exploit the Cumberland Falls on the Cumberland River in Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment...
...long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry...
West were Secretaries Davis of War and Jardine of Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
With what fury the Brooklyn Edison Co. pursued Lawrence F. Jones! First they shut off his power, but his store remained well lighted. The Edison Co. appealed to the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity, supposing that Lawrence Jones was stealing current to illuminate his store. Though his store remained lighted, no one could tell where he got the current. At last, the Brooklyn Edison Co. had Lawrence Jones arrested. He proved himself innocent of theft and went...
...popular but they have not, naturally, made him considered a financial authority. While other sound names- Charles G. Dawes, Victor C. Bell, Harris Hammond - were listed on the Jenkins directorate, Wall Street wondered why, if television were now an immediate commercial possibility, General Electric Radio, or some other established power had not helped to back it. There appeared to be, however, a friendly alliance with de Forest of which young Biddle is also chairman...