Word: swidler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph Swidler, a former New Dealer and TVA general counsel, preaches the advantages of a dual system of public and private utilities. Since 1961, he has helped clear up the overwhelming backlog of 4,000 rate cases, expanded the 1,200-man agency's enforcement authority...
...REGULATORY AGENCIES. A major source of the business community's sense of harassment is the new aggressiveness of the watchdog agencies. Some railroadmen see nationalization coming on the heels of the Interstate Commerce Commission's recommendation for federal subsidies for passenger lines. New Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of the Federal Power Com mission, describing himself as "consumer-minded," says that he will cut natural-gas rates even if customers do not petition for reduction. Groans one Western corporation chief about the choice of Careerist Paul Dixon to head the Federal Trade Commission: "Kennedy appointed a career prosecutor...