Word: morganism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First major reaction to this news came from Arthur E. Morgan, vacationing in Clermont, Fla. who next day issued an 8,000-word statement to the press: After recounting his own part in the Berry case and accusing his colleagues of "conspiracy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic manipulation," the TVA Chairman came to his astounding...
...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 to the board or to the public...
...Washington, the Morgan gauntlet was picked up without delay. Texas' Maury Maverick, who thinks that TVA may have sold too much power to private companies and too little directly to consumers, introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted that the investigation be kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire...
Franklin Roosevelt's reaction to this onslaught was to pass out to the press, without comment, a memorandum from Directors Morgan and Lilienthal which had been in his hands since Jan. 18. Having been prepared before the chairman's charges were made, it did not answer them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...
Retorted Arthur Morgan, hopping mad: ". . . Mouthpieces for Mr. Lilienthal have been suggesting or forecasting my resignation ever since...