Carl Magee 1992, featuring a choice of battery or solar power, among other improvements. According to its website, the company today “has the largest plant in the world devoted to the manufacturing of digital parking meters.” Magee switched from Republican to Democrat and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate. He is best known in journalism today for the E.W. Scripps Company motto, adopted from Dante for the "Albuquerque Tribune" and which is now carried by all Scripps chain newspapers: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.” Magee died in Tulsa, Oklahoma in February 1946. Carl Magee Carlton Cole
Christopher Magee (politician) Flinn-Magee collusion: "Magee wanted power, Flinn wealth... Magee spent his wealth for more power, and Flinn spent his power for more wealth... Magee attracted followers, Flinn employed them. He was useful to Magee, Magee was indispensable to him... Molasses and vinegar, diplomacy and force, mind and will, they were well mated." Reformers eventually reined in Flinn by passing legislation to curb corruption and kickbacks. As just one example, Steffens wrote about how the Magee machine did favors for businessmen who wanted to expand their plants. "A foundry occupies a block, spreads to the next block and wants the street between.