Some 30 years ago a young lawyer from the progressive State of Wisconsin went to Washington, began his career working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the Interstate Commerce Commission to New York State's Public Service Commission, where he continued his effort to restrain the selfishness of utilities. In those two jobs he saw all the egregious forms of industrial skulduggery.
And last week the same man, now 53...
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