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...whom, many sought to view as Boulder Dam villain was Russell Henry Ballard, president of Southern California Edison, who has spent 32 years growing up with his state's power development. Once president of the National Electric Light Association, Mr. Ballard is a large, heavy-set man, thoroughly schooled in public utility management. Externally genial, exhibiting an interest in his employes which takes him to many of their meetings, he is an autocratic ruler of Southern California power...
Questions & Answers. What lately bred the storm against Secretary Wilbur was a set of questions relating to Boulder Dam which he submitted to Solicitor Edward Clingan Finney of the Interior Department. Mr. Finney's answers implied that Secretary Wilbur might turn all the power at the dam over to Southern California Edison, allowing the other bidders to obtain their share from S. C. E. by subcontracts backed by bond issues. Under such an arrangement, S. C. E. would install all the power generating machinery, set up all the transmission lines, do all the real selling and distributing...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder Dam...
Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
...voted against Reapportionment (1929) Though not on formal record, he favored Boulder Dam (1928), opposed the Navy's 15-cruiser bill...