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...Pittsburgh accountant named Michael Charles Conick got a juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such...
...Senator Donahey, consenting, furnished Accountant Conick with the same powers of access to TVA records and witnesses as the committee's other experts. As private utilitarians cheered this new guarantee of an ice-cold view of TVA, Senator Davis publicly declared...
Evidently stirred by Senator Davis' activity, Chairman Donahey traveled at week's end to Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee's secretary, long a topflight aide of such employers as General Motors, National Cash Register, the British Treasury...
Having completed a tour of the Tennessee Valley and settled down comfortably for the summer, Senator Vic Donahey's TVA investigating committee last week got down to work. At Knoxville the committee took up its long job by calling to the stand TVA's deposed chairman, Arthur Ernest Morgan...
...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...