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During last week's busy days-while he was preparing for the opening of the first Congress in which his supporters may not have clear sailing-Franklin Delano Roosevelt paused to attend to a seemingly small matter. He picked George MacDonald, rich public utilitarian of Manhattan, to head a committee to distribute 3,000,000 bus. of surplus U. S. wheat to non-combatants in Spain. Giving wheat to Spaniards of both sides impartially amounts to friendly aid to Spanish Loyalists, who need bread far worse than Generalissimo Franco's side. As such it is another gesture...
...seasoned promoter who helped put together Montana Power Co., Banker Myers was discovered by James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville...
...negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity to shift the Power fight from the courts to the people's forum...
...introduce educational innovations than their public counterparts. Significant experiments such as the tutorial system or the National Scholarship plan could never have originated in state universities, subject as they are to budget-balancing governors. Moreover, only an institution like Harvard is capable of extensively promoting research of a non-utilitarian character, the ultimate values of which may not be appreciated by the constituency of a vote-seeking politician...
...onetime (1932-34) RFC director who organized Arkansas's first telephone sys tem, strapping, 61-year-old Harvey Couch is Arkansas's wealthiest private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch...