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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During four days of testimony in an air-cooled Federal courtroom, zealous Arthur Morgan repeated and amplified the charges he made against TVA Directors Harcourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal last March. He made it clear that: 1) from the beginning in 1933 he was the only one of TVA's directors who was in step, 2) Franklin Roosevelt was fully informed of the Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal rift from its inception, but did nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: More Morgan | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Carey, and two other officials, were fined $500, given six months in jail, told by Judge Homer A. Fuller that they need not pay a cent or serve a day if they called off their strike. As astounded by this remarkable punishment as attorneys in Judge Fuller's courtroom, C. I. O.'s Carey appealed, chose imprisonment but was released on bond, announced: "I was faced with six months in jail . . . [or] a lifetime with my conscience. . . ." This week an arbitration board set up by Governor Kraschel proposed that Maytag take back all hands at full pay, pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Jasper County | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Courtroom Obbligato (Sat. 7.30 p.m., CBS). Columbia Workshop sets Hilda Lawrence's night court stream of consciousness to Tom Bennett's music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Last week a woman named Marie Petitjean Becker, a 58-year-old widow with crisp bangs, a broad mouth and glutinous eyes, sat in a Liége courtroom testifying that she had always been virtuous, romantic, if anything, too tender. Speaking in a husky, flat tone, she gave no indication of the nervousness she had ample reason to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Fatal Marte | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Defense Attorney Dawson complained of cramp. He asked Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Case of Mary-Helen | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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