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Last fortnight Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority startled Washington and the nation by demanding a full-fledged Congressional investigation of his colleagues, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal, in language that suggested that their great enterprise might be the Teapot Dome of the Roosevelt Administration (TIME, March 14). So last week the three TVA directors appeared in Washington for their long threatened showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt...
...TRIPLE THINKERS-Edmund Wilson-Harcourt, Brace...
THESE FOREIGNERS-William Seabrook -Harcourt, Brace...
FATHERLAND FAREWELL!-Gosta Larsson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape...
...AGAINST HIMSELF-Karl A. Menninger-Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Suggestive, simply-written study (485 pages) of the many forms of self-destruction that operate in human beings, from suicide to the "accidents" that mysteriously fulfill the victims' intentions. Chapters on deliberate failures, self-mutilation, are documented with quotations from Freud that show the freshness and power of Freud's observations, with less telling illustrations from Dr. Menninger's own practice...