Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electrical Power Regulation. "The Federal Power Commission is now composed of three Cabinet officers. . . . I recommend that authority be given for the appointment of full-time commissioners to replace them. . . . The authority of the commission should be extended to certain phases of power regulation. About 90% of all power generation and distribution is intrastate. . . . There are cases, however, of interstate character beyond the jurisdiction of the states...
Muscle Shoals. "Such parts of these plants as would be useful and revenues from the remainders should be dedicated for all time to the farmers of the U. S . I do not favor the operation by the government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable byproduct. ... [I am led] to suggest that Congress create a special commission . . . with authority to complete some sort of contract...
...Senate voted to take from the President his present power to flex tariff rates 50% up or down...
...sang Secretary of Labor James John Davis one night last week over the radio from Washington. It was an old, old hymn which his mother Esther used to sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song had never been translated into English; 2) at Sharon, Pa., before his radio set sat David James Davis, 80, harkening with vast delight...
...Chief military recommendation by the late Secretary: "Definite progress in mechanization, motorization and material preparedness is demanded by the nature of modern military power. . . . War has entered the field of the exact sciences...