Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Big, lean Arthur Ernest Morgan is a top-flight civil engineer, an expert on flood control, a famed progressive educator, and a man of stern and often inflexible ideas. Plain, stringy Harcourt A. Morgan is a farmer and entomologist who came to TVA from the Presidency of the University of...
Marble Bait. Chairman Morgan's ammunition was an extraordinary set of mineral leases for the exploitation of marble deposits on land flooded by the construction of the Authority's Norris Dam. One of the chief leaseholders is none other than Tennessee's loud, egregious Senator George Leonard...
In Washington, the Morgan gauntlet was picked up without delay. Texas' Maury Maverick, who thinks that TVA may have sold too much power to private companies and too little directly to consumers, introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted...
When unruffled Dave Lilienthal turned up in Washington himself last week, he refused to discuss the question of a TVA investigation and hinted that a conciliator would probably have come to the same conclusion about the marble claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to...
As monopolies go, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is probably the best run and most benevolent in the U. S. Nonetheless, Congress in the last three years has appropriated $1,500,000 for an A. T. & T. investigation. Hearings ended last summer and last week the Federal Communications Commission report was...