Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completed a tour of the Tennessee Valley and settled down comfortably for the summer, Senator Vic Donahey's TVA investigating committee last week got down to work. At Knoxville the committee took up its long job by calling to the stand TVA's deposed chairman, Arthur Ernest Morgan...
During four days of testimony in an air-cooled Federal courtroom, zealous Arthur Morgan repeated and amplified the charges he made against TVA Directors Harcourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal last March. He made it clear that: 1) from the beginning in 1933 he was the only one of TVA's directors who was in step, 2) Franklin Roosevelt was fully informed of the Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal rift from its inception, but did nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...
...second issue was significant. Whereas the courts have ruled that the President may fire such purely executive functionaries as postmasters in midterm, but may not, except for specific offenses, discharge quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative officers (I. C. C., F. T. C.) who have been appointed for fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section...
...some 23 well-wishers who had volunteered contributions to his expenses, embattled Dr. Morgan last week addressed letters saying he could use more money. Said he: ". . . Contributions are not desired from power companies or their officials, or from persons or companies which have personal or private issues with...