Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges, when he attempts to be faithful with his readers, he is persona non grata. If he does not correct his course at official suggestion he is invited to leave the country. In the future all our reports from Russia will come from agents sent to the country on special assignments...
Publisher Friede (see above) rushed from Boston to Manhattan to appear before a Court of Special Sessions. There his company's novel, The Well of Loneliness by Authoress Radclyffe Hall of England, was being attacked by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Three judges decided this book was not obscene. The book's theme: Lesbianism...
...between the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and the electric light and power industry are among the matters for investigation under the resolution pending before the Joint Rules committee of the Massachusetts Legislature and coming up for hearing again today. The resolution, calling for an investigation by a special committee of the Legislature into various phases of the light and power industry, was filed by Representative James E. Hagan of Somerville, on petition of Daniel P. Leahy, a member of the city council of Cambridge...
Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, who represented a resolution for a sweeping investigation by a special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and Wall Street." Professor Ripley had paid considerable attention to public utilities, the merger of power companies, the pyramiding of holding companies and their financial practices, and the growth of interstate power; and raised the question whether the time had not come for Federal regulation of the electrical industry, so rapidly...
...resolution of Senator Walsh calling for a special investigation, was opposed by the organized light and power interests, specifically the National Electric Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the joint Committee of the National Utility Associations. They were joined, among others, by banking associations. A spokesman for one of these associations, Henry R. Hayes, President of the Investment Bankers Association of America, appeared before the committee on Interstate Commerce, on January 17, 1928. He argued, among other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made...