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...advantage handed him by the Federal Trade Commission's revelation of letters written to Associated Gas & Electric Co. by a State Senator who was a member of the powerful Public Service Committee and its one-time chairman (TIME, April 9). Alleged letters from bumbling State Senator Warren T. Thayer were discovered, in which the writer hoped that his services had been "satisfactory" to the big holding company. The Governor demanded a sweeping investigation not only of suspicious relations between public officials and public utilities but of New York's whole huge utility business. Mr. Thayer introduced a resolution...
...Thayer Academy knocked William S. Baxter '87 out of the box in the second inning of the Freshman game yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field and at the end of six innings, (a legal game) won by a score...
While the Varsity is entertaining B. U. this afternoon, the Freshman diamonders will entertain Thayer Academy. Tomorrow they will face B. U. at Riverside. Tom Bilodeau, heavy hitter of the yearlings, who can play almost any one of the nine positions of a baseball team and play them well, is the leading star of the yearlings at the moment. He's the best looking baseball player-to enter Harvard in several years...
...home in Chateaugay, N. Y. (pop.: 1,100), Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like...
...owner of an excelsior mill, a cold-storage plant and a road building firm, Senator Thayer maintains he is "just a simple farmer." But: "I did a lot of wandering when I was a young fellow." Shortly after the century's turn, he helped found a small local power company in Chateaugay. About 1925 he and his fellow Chateaugayans sold out to Associated Gas & Electric. "And here's the funny thing," he explained last week. "After we sold out . . . we found that the 20-year franchise had ended in 1923, and we had forgotten all about...