Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick J. Farrell of Vermont and the District of Columbia, to succeed John Jacob Esch on the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Coolidge had tried to keep Mr. Esch, but the Senate repeatedly refused to believe that Mr. Esch had not overinterpreted the Commission's function and power. Mr. Farrell, Canadian-born, had been retained as counsel for 27 years by the I. C. C., latterly as chief counsel. He is a Democrat, but party is supposed to be forgotten...
...investigation of the business and political methods of interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that...
...fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed and constructed entirely of aluminum, not because Mr. Mellon was a power in the aluminum industry but because it seemed a perfect thing to do, and perhaps useful to others...
...called Mellon Machine did not take form in western Pennsylvania until after the death of Boies Penrose in 1921, and when it did, Andrew William Mellon was its motive power, not its engineer. Outside of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon was politically unheard-of in 1920, when President Harding, at the suggestion of the late Philander Chase Knox, asked him to take over the national treasury, then 24 billions in debt...
Coach E. L. Farrell has entered 43 members of the Crimson team which last Saturday displayed unexpected power in defeating Yale 78 to 57. After its strong showing against the Blue, the Harvard team is expected to give good account of itself in the scoring tomorrow, and is generally considered a possible winner of second honors. Stanford has sent a contingent that is conceded potential power sufficient to win the meet easily...