Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chairman Arthur E. Morgan and Director David E. Lilienthal of Tennessee Valley Authority sat in the same House of Representatives gallery seats so lately vacated by "Power Trust" lobbyists, eagerly watching an experiment in child psychology. Fortnight ago the House, in bold defiance of President Roosevelt, flatly refused to vote a "death sentence" upon utility .holding companies. Now Dr. Morgan and Mr. Lilienthal were particularly interested to see whether it would cap one defiance with another, or whether the President was justified in his confidence that, frightened by its previous temerity, the House would return to its normal...
What set Messrs. Morgan and Lilienthal to gurgling with joy was a series of votes by which the members of the House, once more on their good behavior, with substantial and unexpectedly large majorities, in short order allowed what its committee had forbidden, waived what had been required, permitted what had been denied, granted what had been refused. The House then signed & sealed its grant of power by a vote...
Upheld by unanimous decision of the Appellate Court was New York's Supreme Court order making Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 11, a ward of the court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights...
...Glass provision would not allow banks to return to the retailing of securities through affiliates but it would allow them the profits of underwriting and wholesaling. Consequently shares of big Manhattan and Chicago banks soared on the news last week. One of the biggest beneficiaries would be J. P. Morgan & Co., which under the Banking Act of 1955 chose to surrender its commanding position in security underwriting rather than its hundreds of millions of deposits...
...braves housed in 400 lodges, owners of perhaps 10,000 horses. That scientifically-trained German explorer learned that they robbed but did not kill white men, that their women were notorious for debauchery, that perversion was common among them. In 1871 the great U. S. anthropologist Lewis Morgan, whose studies of primitive society modified the views of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, wrote on the intricate structure of Crow family relationships, focusing the attention of many a lesser scientist on the haughty and dying tribe...