Word: dave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keen-eyed David Eli Lilienthal, of TVA, took Willkie's surrender. Neat and precise, he stepped forward and handed rumpled Wendell Willkie a check for $44,728,300, TVA's share of the purchase of T.E.P. Willkie took the check, looked at its thumping figure, looked at Dave Lilienthal, at whom he had glowered in many a meeting over the past six years...
...Wendell Willkie, Dave Lilienthal, relentless opponent of public utilities, but no Indiana farmer (he was born in Illinois, educated at Indiana's De Pauw University), had words of praise now that the war was over. He described Willkie as one of the outstanding proponents of private enterprise, "who has done a real job of selling electricity at low rates...
...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
Curtain's Fall. In 1933 smart, aggressive Harvard-man Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
Willkie said with TVA's privileges he could market power 35% cheaper than TVA was doing. Dave Lilienthal only grinned. Willkie offered to sell C. & S. Tennessee Valley properties at "any reasonable figure." Dave Lilienthal turned down the offer. Last fall, before a Congressional committee investigating TVA, daring Wendell Willkie offered to sell at any price SEC would set. The offer was not accepted but negotiations were quietly resumed between C. & S. and Lilienthal. Last week's announcement by Dave Lilienthal drew the curtain, perhaps permanently, on out-loud haggling over power...