Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserves a fair and open hearing, which is full and impartial and without any predilection for or against any person or against the TVA itself. The investigating body should be provided with sufficient funds to make possible a first hand examination of the obscure financial records of the power program [administered by Director Lilienthal], and of all other important phases of the TVA which come into question. The fertilizer policy [administered by Director Morgan] . . . was adopted without being disclosed to the TVA Board, and no impartial technical appraisal and report of the fertilizer program ever has been made...
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 reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private...
...Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen in circles close to the Church and the General Staff have their list of Communists, proletarian militants and officials of the Soviet Embassy in Paris whom they accuse of preparing a Leftist coup...
...right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), and presented him to Soviet President Mihail Kalinin in the Kremlin, Nikolai Krestinsky, who in Washington terms would be the right-hand man of Secretary Hull. Death also hung over former Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts who had dined with Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and entertained them at his own country place, a magnificent dacha almost as splendiferous as the former Galitsin Palace which today is Stalin's dacha (TIME...
...tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests: tuberculosis research in Louisville, Ky., a U. S. Negro theatre...