Word: powerman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
...Lawyer Baldwin's file the committee's investigators unearthed a copy of a letter to the wife of Powerman Phillips, relating that as a boat gift Mr. Baldwin had sent her husband a bottle of Creme de Menthe with this jingle...
...Administration would announce that this kind of thing was to cease and that the Government would henceforth attend to its own proper activities and give business a chance to come back," cried the powerman, "recovery would blossom as do the roses at this time of year...
...issue of Power. That was not so easy for Mr. Hepburn as it was for President Roosevelt: almost all of Ontario's power business is already in the hands of Hydro and Hydro is an official appendage of the Provincial Government. Furthermore, no less a private U. S. powerman than . Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York and of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. once described Hydro as "the best managed and operated government enterprise in the world...
Meantime another and a far different Washington plan was raising the hair of every powerman in the land. That was President Roosevelt's plan for badgering utility holding companies out of existence. In his press conferences lately the President has been stressing his distinction between operating companies, which he generally praises, and holding companies, which he invariably damns. Particularly irritating to the President is the phrase "widows and orphans," which is constantly used by powermen in any discussion of the possible effects of New Deal policies on utility securities...