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...against the Insull power interests in that state. Elected to the house last autumn as an avowed enemy of Power, he helped wangle a $36,000,000 works relief grant from the Democratic Administration to harness the tides below Passamaquoddy Bay in his district with a great government power dam. Yet in the House teller vote on the Public Utility Bill's so-called "death sentence" (TIME, July 8), Representative Brewster sided with Power, against the President. That startling inconsistency left the man from Maine with a great deal of explaining...
...already tense with excitement over rumors of undue White House pressure in behalf of the "death sentence.'' His voice throbbing with righteous indignation; Representative Brewster bluntly declared that Presidential Agent Thomas G. Corcoran had approached him just before the teller vote, threatened to stop construction on Passamaquoddy Dam unless he voted for the "death sentence." Inference was that his prompt vote against it had been a righteous protest against such a flagrantly unrighteous threat...
Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...
...give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level of the old CWA. He had already promised millions for a great dam on Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. He had to finish up public works Mr. Ickes started last year and the year before. When some $1,800,000,000 of his $4,000,000,000 had been allotted, the President had good reason to worry about the average job-cost of his projects. Early...
...corrosive gases; pure, unyielding platinum, gold and silver to line tubes and machinery; porous bricks which act as heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of sodium in tank cars so full that no air or water can get in to deteriorate them; production on a vast scale at Wilson Dam of phosphatic fertilizers cheap enough to persuade Tennessee Valley farmers to refresh their exhausted, eroding soil...