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...extended visit late summer to early winter in this country leads me to believe that anyone may travel for weeks and months even into the interior and remote banovinas with perfect safety. Your ominous Sarajevo I found quite sunny, pleasant and even amusing...
...water power rights. Its job is to license power companies to construct plants along navigable streams, to check their investments, to regulate interstate power rates, to maintain govern-ment options to buy back licensed plants after 50 years. The nominal commissioners are the Secretaries of War, Interior & Agriculture. They sit about five hours a year. The actual work of the commission is carried on by Frank E. Bonner, its secretary, Charles A. Russell, its solicitor, and William V. King, its accountant...
...submitted to the House a report in which were cited examples of alleged inflation of capital assets by power companies, including the Niagara Company's $30,000,000. Political pressure, he claimed, was brought to bear on the then Commissioners-Dwight Filley Davis (War), Hubert Work (Interior), William Jardine. (Agriculture)-who recalled the report and deleted the samples of "power padding" lest they "cause a rumpus" by the companies...
...more "typical" Frenchman was ever born. Owner of a small estate and vineyard in Touraine, son of a mediocre politician who once was Vice-President of the Senate, onetime mayor of Tours, and thrice holder for brief periods of the Ministry of Interior, once of the Ministry of Justice, it may be said of M. Chautemps that nothing can be said of him which would not apply as well to a score of other Deputies. His rise to leadership of the Radical Socialists resulted primarily from the fall of Edouard Daladier, after the latter's ignominious failure to form...
...Cities will spread out more and more, working men can have more ground around their homes. Cities had better stop piling up their skyscrapers anyway. Everyone knows the interior of the earth is plastic. It's possible to get too much weight upon the surface. It's bound to make a dent...