Seattle City Light public power speeches and radio presentations, 1932-1938.

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Seattle City Light public power speeches and radio presentations, 1932-1938.

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The series consists of radio talks and public presentations related to the benefits of public power and the merger of Seattle City Light with a private power company, Puget Sound Power and Light. Approximately half of the series is comprised of transcripts from a regular radio program sponsored by the Friends of City Light during 1936-1937. City Light Superintendent J.D. Ross was a principal speaker on these programs. From July through Sept. 1936, the show was broadcast Monday through Friday; beginning in October, it changed to a weekly program. Ross's early presentations generally were given over to explaining the work of New Deal programs and agencies such as the Bonneville Power Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Rural Electrification Administration. He also extolled the virtues of publicly owned power. In 1937, most of the programs were focused on explaining the benefits of the proposed merger with PSPL. In those presentations, the speakers were generally City Light managers or citizens sympathetic to public power--all representing Ross's viewpoint. In these programs, the speakers never used the name of the PSPL, but rather referred to it simply as the Company. The second part of the series is comprised of speeches that Ross gave throughout the country. The subject matter is almost exclusively about the financial benefits of public power and the close relationship between City Light and the Bonneville Power Administration.

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Seattle City Light

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Seattle Dept. of Lighting and Water Works created in 1890; city charter amendment in 1910 created the Lighting Dept.; in 1951 the Department purchased the private electrical power supply operations in Seattle; current name of the agency was adopted in 1978 when the Department was reorganized. Seattle approved the purchase of the land and money for construction of the plant in 1913; construction began in 1914, and was finished in 1917. Additions were made in 1918 and 1921. The plant was decommiss...

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Ross, J. D. 1872-1939.

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United States. Federal Trade Commission.

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United States. Securities and Exchange Commission

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Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Lighting.

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Friends of City Light.

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