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Wendell Willkie. Thoroughly Presidential is Utilitycoon Willkie, the home spun Indianian who makes sense on any subject (New Dealers would except TVA). Mr. Willkie, 48, no Tory, is brilliant, countrified, adept in controversy and, to many minds, the best domestic brain on politico-economics. He has two serious handicaps-he is associated in the public mind with utilities; he is unknown politically west of the Mississippi...
Other utilitymen did not point to it with pride. Utility-baiters called it an octopus. Roly-poly Utilitycoon Howard Colwell Hopson and his partner, John I. Mange, called it Associated Gas & Electric...
Died. Rufus Cutler Dawes, 72, utilitycoon, brother of former U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, president of Chicago's 1933-34 world's fair (A Century of Progress); suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago...
Less than a month later Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...
...Midwest and Southern utility holding companies, dissolved them and put their eleven big operating companies under a new holding company giant: Commonwealth & Southern, with operating units in eleven States from Michigan to Alabama. To Manhattan he summoned Wendell Willkie to be C. & S.'s attorney. When old-line Utilitycoon Cobb retired in 1933, he made Willkie president...