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Las Vegas Age
Las Vegas, Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada
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In a Federal Trade Commission investigation into power utilities, Marcy B. Darnall of Florence, Alabama, testified that the Alabama Power Company funded the distribution of his editorials opposing government operation of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam projects to approximately 400 newspapers at $200 per month since 1926.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AP) The circulation of newspaper editorials in opposition to the government operation of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam projects at the expense of the Alabama Power Company was disclosed in the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into the power utilities, by Marcy B. Darnall, of Florence, Alabama.
Darnall testified that he sent editorial matter written by him to newspapers all over the country through arrangement with the power company.
Darnall, who is editor of the Florence Herald, said his original news service went to two hundred newspapers, but after an arrangement with the power company's treasury in 1926, his service circulated editorials to about two hundred additional papers at an expense of $200 per month to the power company.
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disclosure of arrangement for circulating editorials to about 400 newspapers at $200 per month expense to alabama power company since 1926.
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Marcy B. Darnall, editor of the Florence Herald, testified that he sent editorial matter written by him opposing government operation of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam projects to newspapers all over the country through arrangement with the Alabama Power Company. His original news service went to two hundred newspapers, but after arrangement in 1926, it circulated to about two hundred additional papers.