Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office TVA Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan and his fellow directors, David Eli Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan, once more asked Chairman Morgan to substantiate the sensational charges upon which he was demanding a Congressional investigation of his colleagues (TIME, March 21). When Chairman Morgan, apparently counting on the fact that a Congressional investigation of TVA is now certain, once more refused to answer Presidential questions, Franklin Roosevelt with a great show of forbearance extended the hearing another three days. When three days later Mr. Morgan reaffirmed his determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread...
...fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly cried...
...fact that interest in Freshman intramural baseball arises each year is ample testimony that the project is worth while. As such, it is worth doing well; dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...
Samborski emphasized the fact that managerial responsibility, or lack of it, will play a large part in the success or failure of the plan. He pointed out that for several years the Freshman interhall athletic projects have failed because the dormitory managers have not been able to turn out adequate teams...
...king is in check. The very act of removing Arthur Morgan made a Congressional investigation inevitable, and the President could only answer that he had always wanted one anyway. By his maneuvering, he now stands to lose an important legal decision, he has aroused public opinion, and the fact of the T.V.A. and other similar organization may be seriously imperilled by the court decision and the investigation of Congress...