Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This new G. O. Problem was the result of the Senate Lobby Committee's investigation of Mr. Huston's activities in behalf of Muscle Shoals. A Tennessean, Mr. Huston long headed the Tennessee River Improvement Association, which maintained a Washington lobby to oppose Government operation of the Government's $150,000,000 power plant, built during the War to make nitrates for gunpowder. The T. R. I. A. favored acceptance of some private bid for the plant's use. Mr. Huston collected cash, sent more than $156,000 in four years to his Washington headquarters...