Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...seasoned promoter who helped put together Montana Power Co., Banker Myers was discovered by James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville...
Nebraska's "little TVA," a combination of three hydroelectric projects financed by $60,000,000 of PWA funds, encountered, besides charges of bad engineering, much the same sort of opposition as big TVA- suits, injunctions, bitter antagonism from already established power companies. As in the case of big TVA it finally boiled down to how the PWA "hydros" could market their power. The private companies were not interested in pulling the chestnuts out of the fire. Little TVA then considered building its own distributing system, which probably would mean ruin for all concerned. Then Guy Myers entered...
...staying in harness where I am than by going into this contest in Chicago." Two days later Honest Harold Ickes visited Chicago, expressed his regrets to his would-be drafters ("I know you wouldn't want to kill me"), broke ground with a silver drill for the Chicago PWA-financed subway, ran out to Winnetka to inaugurate a grade-crossing project...
...just happily remarried. Being a reform mayor in a place like Chicago is grueling work, and the stage, even in vasty, gusty Chicago, would be small and local compared to the Interior and PWA. Getting the nomination in February's primary might not be easy, either. State's Attorney Tom Courtney, able and fearless, is burning to be the Nash-Kelly smasher...