Word: utilitarian
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...Century and Zion's Herald. The latter weekly printed an editorial which cited "forged telegrams" and "whispering campaigns" as "the diabolical methods used by the utility companies in their efforts to forestall legislation affecting them." Last week its editor, Lewis Oliver Hartman, received and printed a letter from Utilitarian Denman...
...utilitarian who had no doubt what he should do last week was Samuel Ferguson, chairman of independent Hartford Electric Light Co. and its affiliate Connecticut Power Co.* This quiet, genial Yankee has never hobnobbed with holding companies but his two small utilities did have ten-year-old interstate connections with power companies in Massachusetts and New York. Few hours before the Holding Company Bill became law, Chairman Ferguson quietly ordered out a crew of linemen who snipped all the company's interstate lines at the border, pulled the wires off the towers. "Too bad we had to do this," declared...
Elevation to the Senate did not make Hugo Black politically potent, but it enabled him to become politically respectable. As an Alabamian and an anti-utilitarian, he played second fiddle to Senator Norris on the long Muscle Shoals sonata. He got his fellow Alabama veterans costly favors. He picked up the 30-hour-week idea and, to the great delight of Labor, brandished it menacingly about the Senate chamber. In 1933 he got his 30-hour-week bill passed by the Senate amid a great spatter of headlines. Then came NRA which also promised short hours, and Senator Black adroitly...
...against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned up in Manhattan as a law clerk in the famed firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. One day he prepared a contract on short notice for Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell when that dynamic utilitarian was president of Electric Bond & Share. Mr. Mitchell liked the contract, thought Clerk Odium a versatile young man. Then & there he installed him at Electric Bond & Share as a private assistant. Before he left in 1931 Floyd Odium had become vice chairman of Electric Bond & Share's potent subsidiary...
Back at his office, Mr. Gadsden found that in his absence a Black committee investigator named Blomquist had ransacked both his official and personal files. "He actually went through my personal checkbook," cried the furious utilitarian. "I think it's an outrage...