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...Washington, an hour and a half after Chairman Morgan thus defied the third and final dead line set by the President for withdrawing or supporting his public charges against his fellow directors, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal (TIME, March 28), a band of interested reporters crowded noisily into the President's circular office for their regular White House press conference. When they had lined up around his desk, Franklin Roosevelt began to read a letter he had just dispatched to Chairman Morgan...
...President thereupon went on to announce 1) that the new TVA chairman would be Vice Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan, and 2) that he was sending Congress, to do with as that body wished, the 110-page transcript of his hearings of the three TVA directors. Moreover, said the President to the assembled press, the President was tired of reading that the White House had been bringing pressure to bear against a Congressional investigation of TVA. So incensed was he, in fact, by this charge that he wanted the reporters to put on the record his statement that any special writer...
...week's time extension he gave them last fortnight having expired, the President once more received in his 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...
...WORK-Oscar Brynes- Harcourt, Brace ($1.25). A fast, comprehensive notation of a fast, comprehensive day's work-Brooklyn's 1934 $500,000 armored-car robbery. Poet Brynes's first published book reveals him as an able handler of 1) melodramatic narrative, 2) a sawed-off vernacular with a hot business-end, cool trigger...
HOPE or HEAVEN-John O'Hara-Harcourt, Brace...