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...still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able Dr. Edwin Cornelius Broome, Philadelphia Superintendent...
Federal Light & Traction Co. (light, heat and 12,000,000 bus passengers annually) net, $3,243,921. Previous year...
Died. George A. Huhn, 79, retired Philadelphia banker, stockbroker and traction financier; in Overbrook...
...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
...rolled glass makers-Highland Glass Co. at Washington, Pa., and the Western Glass Co. at Streator, Ill., Shirley, Ind., and Fullerton, Calif.-as the Highland-Western Glass Co., with $5,000,000 capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent as to which company would buy technical control of the other and create a half billion dollar utility merger. Chiefly because of a complicated financial set up United Light and Power, last week, became the buyer. The Koppers (Mellon Associates) and Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland pushed...