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Roosevelt Urges Public Utilities Reform and Power Control
In a forceful address, the speaker condemns holding companies and warns that lax regulation allows vast interstate power operations to gouge consumers. He urges full public oversight, tighter holding company rules, and potential public ownership where private service is inadequate, citing Insull, Muscle Shoals, and Boulder Dam as milestones.
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Federal Trade Commission
United States
Federal Power Commission
Insull
Public Utilities Commissions
Union
Boulder Dam
Colorado River
Muscle Shoals
Congress
Senator Norris
Hoover
Norris
Hoov
New York
Columbia River
St. Lawrence River
Harding
Coolidge
Couzens
White House
St. Lawrence