Abstract

Federal Control of the Power Trust
Pearson, Drew | September 18, 1929 issue

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Two years ago last March the Sixty-ninth U.S. Congress was attempting to end its last days without leaving too much work unfinished when Senator of Montana introduced a resolution. The resolution provided for a Senate investigation of the financial structure and the propaganda agencies of the Power Trust. The Senator had hoped that in the stampede of legislation which always attends the closing days of any Congress, his resolution would slip by unnoticed. But it did not. The resolution was sent to committee. Against him was arrayed a battalion of the most high-powered lawyers the utilities could mobilize. Every kind of publicity which an astute corps of power-company propagandists could devise was brought into play.

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LEGISLATORS -- United States; GOVERNMENTAL investigations; LEGISLATION; UNITED States. Congress; MONTANA; UNITED States
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