Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court may declare one or more of the steamrollered Earle bills unconstitutional; 2) impeachment proceedings may be started against some members of the Supreme Court, who Senator Guffey last week said "debased themselves and their offices by accepting the equivalent of cash from the House of Morgan...
Last week, when Arthur Morgan testified that the committee's counsel, socialite New Dealer Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, "has informed me that I can't talk to a TVA employe who has not been arranged through him." Representative Jenkins charged into the battle. In the ensuing exchange of bellows, he asked TVA's lawyer, James Lawrence Fly: "Have you any arrangement with Mr. Biddle whereby you know everything they [the employes] tell Dr. Morgan...
...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...
Most striking feature of Arthur Morgan's testimony was his willingness to weaken his case rather than tell half-truths. Witness Morgan first declared that TVA's General Manager John Blandford was "one of the little clique that run things," and lacked the background necessary for the job. Then Witness Morgan added that he himself hired Mr. Blandford away from a job as Cincinnati's public safety director, rued the choice later. In the same implacably veracious vein. Arthur Morgan pointed out that he: 1) signed board minutes which he now says were doctored by David Lilienthal...
Before and after Arthur Morgan. Messrs. H. A. Morgan and David Lilienthal were heard. Said H. A. Morgan: "TVA is a good thing." Said David Lilienthal: "We cut red tape and went right ahead" (to set up TVA's yardstick in 1933). Later studies, he explained, showed that the rates he originally hit upon were sound...