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...Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as signed at the White House, specifically called for three administrators who believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton...
Tartly observed the lawyers for Huntington's banks & power company: "The only conspiracy here is to collect some of Bangs's manifold debts...
...augurs the possibility of a new emphasis on the part of the student body, on precisely those matters of intelligent interest which have in the past been neglected by the University publications. For it is not a stricture on these last to concede that their scope, in representing the manifold activities of the University body, has necessarily been limited...
...causes of the Depression may be manifold but War Debts and reparations have been a major cause and a settlement is an indispensable condition of a revival of general prosperity. . . . Reparations and war debts represent expenditure on destruction. Fertile fields were rendered barren and populous cities a shattered ruin. Like the shells on which they were largely spent these loans were blown to pieces. [Their] repayment necessitates unnatural transfers which provoke widespread economic evil...
...grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor. . . . -Now, therefore, I do recommend . . . that we may all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks-for His kind care and protection of the people of this country-for the signal and manifold, mercies and the favorable interposition of His providence-for the great degree of tranquillity, . union and plenty which we have enjoyed-for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed. . . . And also that we may unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler...