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Ontario's cherished low power rates were Premier Hepburn's excuse for tearing up Hydro's contracts. If Hydro lived up to them, it would have to boost rates to carry the costs of the power it cannot sell. Since someone must hold the bag and there was no visible method of passing it to the opposition, the Premier decided that it should be held by the securities holders of the private companies...
...flocked many an Old Guardsman seeking to put the President in a hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four...
...Labor, at that time wired him from a sickbed: IF I HAD BEEN THERE THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Thus Laborite Lewis now finds himself personally allied with Johnson, driven out of NRA largely by Labor's fire, and leagued against Richberg, the man Labor originally helped boost into...
...founded the American Birth Control League. Patrick Cardinal Hayes, then simply Archbishop Hayes of New York, gave it a big boost by having the League's first convention raided...
...boost rural buying, Sears had slashed prices an average of 15%, with biggest reductions in dress goods, curtains, blankets, linens, piece goods. That brought Sears' price scale about on a level with Montgomery Ward which cut prices an average of 6% fortnight ago. Apparently the two biggest mail order houses in the land were convinced that retail prices would not rise for some time...