Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Secretary of Commerce Hoover was nominated by the G. O. P. and Secretary of the Interior Work resigned to manage the campaign, President Coolidge looked around for a new Secretary of the Interior and chose Lawyer West...
...Lawyer West, good mixer that he was, drifted naturally into politics. He became State chairman, then national secretary of the G. O. P., retaining his good law practice and investments the while. Samuel Insull, astute businessman that he was, became the public utilities potentate of the Midwest. When government regulation of public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily...
Since the Secretary of the Interior is ex-officio a member of the Federal Power Commission, it came to pass that Mr. Insull's lawyer, long a stockholder in the Middle West Utilities Co., sat last week upon that Federal tribunal to which that Insull company had to apply for a licence to exploit the Cumberland Falls on the Cumberland River in Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment...
...Senate referred the case to its Committee on Public Lands, which straightway asked Secretary West to appear for a questioning...
...West were Secretaries Davis of War and Jardine of Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...