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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right, Cap'n, we might as well be candid. What's the use of talking about it? You haven't got the votes, have...
...sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception was a brilliant, deadly parallel to the late T. E. Lawrence's masterly guerilla tactics in the Arabian revolt...
...over the State, plunging into account books like alligators plopping in a bayou, were investigators, Federal. State and parish. They were probing WPA irregularities, PWA irregularities, use of the mails to defraud, income-tax evasion and fraud, defalcations and irregularities in L. S. U. construction, evasions of the Connally "hot oil" law, what happens to the famed 5% deductions from all State employes' paychecks, and everything else they could think...
...artful use of newspaper publicity, and by telegrams, letters and phone calls to directors, Broker Young forced competitive bidding for a $30,000,000 C. & O. issue last December. Morgan Stanley, who had had the issue sewed up, stepped out, and C. & O. got an extra $1,350,000 on the issue. Last February, by the same means, Mr. Young forced competition for a $12,000,000 Cincinnati Union Terminal issue; Morgan Stanley withdrew again, and the Terminal got $45,000 extra for its bonds. Last week, after a barrage of letters, wires, phone calls, the directors of Terminal Railroad...
Last March, at annual sounding-off time, Groesbeck tossed out his idea. He said: ". . . The objectives of both Government and the utilities must be with the widest possible use of electric service at the lowest possible cost. . . . The achievement of this end and the solution of the existing problems of competition lie in ... the coordinated use of the existing generatmg and transmission facilities of both " Two months ago the New York Power Authority (planning exploitation of the St Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their...