Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after TVA's simmering, saintly Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan got himself fired for quarreling publicly with co-Directors Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal (TIME, March 14,1938, et seq.), a joint House & Senate committee which investigated his complaints that the TVA had been mismanaged last week produced three findings...
Looming in their way was Utah's solemn Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice...
Like Mr. Hitler at Munich and after, daring Mr. Eccles had his adversaries on the hip. Said Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, who knows perfectly well that Congress will not economize in a big way: "If the statement of Mr. Eccles represents the views of the President and is endorsed by him, and he desires Congress to determine the issue, I shall be glad to assist in the formulation of a reasonable program." Said Chairman Adams of the Senate sub-committee which cut $150,000,000 from WPA's deficiency appropriation, only to have the President...
...also suggested that control of the fund be shifted from the Treasury to a "trusteeship" composed of the chairman of the Social Security Board and the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury...
...been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example of enlightened management...