Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They also voted to give Methodists in foreign lands the power to elect their own bishops, thus settling a long vexed question in the church. No sooner was the overwhelming vote recorded than cheers and joyful shouts, mingled with hymn-singing reverberated inside Convention Hall. When the tumult subsided, Bishop Fred B. Fisher, of Calcutta, India, said: "Never have I witnessed a more wonderful session. . . . Methodism faces...
...been in its vicinity for several weeks and expected to be there about a month longer. But in his offices at 80 Broadway, Manhattan, close to noon one day last week, were other directors of his $153,000,000 company which supplies without competition all the electric light and power that Brooklyn, a district of 2,250,000 people uses. Brooklyn Edison directors were agreed with Chairman Brady and his very important co-director John D. Ryan (of Anaconda Copper fame) that their company should sell out to the $740,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co., New York City, through...
Commonwealth Edison Company Edison United & Allied Companies Southern California Edison Company Pacific Gas & Electric Company Southeastern Power & Light Company System The Detroit Edison Company The Philadelphia Electric Company System (T) Duke Power Company The West Penn Electric Company
...Federal Trade Commission last week assured Congress that he would even inquire into the political activities of the companies.† He intimated that his reports would soon appear. But observers of the Federal Trade Commission's activities skeptically pointed out that its latest map of the U. S. power industry was made in 1925; that for three months a revised map has been in preparation, that not for another three months will it be finished, that then at once it will be obsolete. There are in the U. S. (at latest count) 124 huge light, power and electric railway...
...Brady and Mr. Ryan are in close association in Anaconda Copper, Brooklyn Edison Consolidated Gas, Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, Montana Power, recently sold to American Power & Light (TIME, April 16) and National City Bank of N. Y. Percy A. Rockefeller is with them on Anaconda Copper Consolidated Gas, National City Bank...