Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight's news that Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. (J. P. Morgan & Co.) had acquired Frontier Power Corp. (Mellon interests) set Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York agog (TIME, Sept. 23). The news meant that 80% of New York State would now be served by one hydro-electric company. While the headlines of Governor Roosevelt's announcement that waterpower must be saved for the public from the Power Trust were still streaming across the front pages of newspapers, reporters received a novel invitation. They were invited to assemble within the precincts of No. 23 Wall Street, the House...
...opinion these are matters for the determination of the Government of the United States and the Government of the State of New York and by the Canadian authorities...
...Lamont is sincere in his statement, and I have no doubt of the sincerity of anything he says, this merger, that has been so feared and dreaded, may prove the most fortunate development in all the years of the struggle between the State and selfish private interests...
...addition to Professor Woods, several other educators, representing Princeton, Columbia, Wellesley, Ohio State, and Chicago were represented at the opening exercises...
...city planning as general education or specific preparation for their work will be arranged with the cooperation of other departments of Harvard University, and students will be enabled to secure the assistance of experts in allied fields. Professors of fine arts, history, economic history, government, particularly municipal and state government, public finance, and public utilities, will open to the students of the new School courses which bear upon city planning or carry further in some specific direction the education of each student according to his particular needs. The Faculties of engineering, education, law, the School of Public Health, the Graduate...