The ancient sport of bearbaiting consisted of setting dogs on a chained bruin. For the last five years Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s President Wendell Willkie, who looks rather like an amiable grizzly, has been chained by the competition of Federal utility projects and baited by the TVA pack of David Lilienthal.
Bear Willkie lost his latest chance to get free last fortnight when the Supreme Court, without passing on TVA's constitutionality, rejected the attack of Commonwealth & Southern and other utility companies on TVA's competing with their established power lines (TIME, Feb....
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