Word: trust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Power and Power. When the resolution by Montana's grim and stormy Walsh for a Senate investigation into the financial and political practices of the "power trust" (TIME, Feb. 13) was reported favorably to the Senate, anxious looks passed among the Democrats. "There is more than one way in which power can be abused," said these looks. Georgia's quiet George offered an amendment to his colleague's resolution, shifting the investigation from the Senate's hands to the Federal Trade Commission...
...George amendment passed. Power interests congratulated themselves. The Federal Trade Commission will almost certainly make no report before Election Day and after that the "power trust" will be forgotten...
...more immediate interest than the "power trust" now is the elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
...bill, which Labor backed, is to remove labor, as an intangible commodity, from the jurisdiction of equity courts and from control by court injunctions. The A. F. of L. men recited uses and abuses of anti-Labor injunctions, the effect of which has been to turn the anti-trust laws from organized Labor's blessing into Labor's bane...
Died. Watson Franklin Blair, 74, retired Chicago capitalist, onetime director of the Corn Exchange National Bank, Deputy Governor since 1921 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, director of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co.; of pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn...