Power Policies of the Roosevelt Administration

Archive Report

Early Applications of Roosevelt Power Policies

The Power Commission and the National Power Survey

Relinquishment by George Otis Smith of his office as a member of the Federal Power Commission on November 1, 1933, at the request of President Roosevelt, opened the way for final reorganization of that commission td make it fully responsive to the desires of the President and an effective instrument with which to forward his power policies. Smith had been appointed to the commission for a five-year term in December, 1930, to carry through a reorganization of the commission in accordance with the power policies of President Hoover.1 At the beginning of the Roosevelt administration he was succeeded as chairman of the commission by Frank R. McNinch, Democrat, who, with Commissioner Draper, ...

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