Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first, the majority directors' counter-charges second, demand all supporting "facts" any of them could give him. He began with Chairman Morgan's most celebrated charge: that there had been collusion between Tennessee's Senator George Berry and the majority directors in agreeing to "conciliate...
...Chairman Morgan: "During a long period I have repeatedly but unsuccessfully endeavored to secure the President's adequate consideration of grave conditions within the TVA. ... I am of the opinion that this meeting is not, and in the nature of the case cannot be, an effective or useful fact finding occasion." Pressed, the chairman snapped: "I am an observer and not a participant in this alleged process of fact finding...
...Chairman Morgan: The first statement I made covers my reasons for not commenting...
Irritated but by no means flustered by these tactics, the President asked Directors Morgan and Lilienthal about the charges, found them eager to deny them, occasionally in chorus. As to "boyish open candor" being a "mask for hard-boiled selfish integrity," as the chairman maintained, Director Lilienthal retorted: "I certainly wouldn't argue whether I have a pleasant personality...
When he turned to the charges made by the majority against the chairman, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal also did all the talking, Chairman Morgan none. But highly documented though these were with magazine articles, letters, telegrams and interoffice memoranda which the President judicially accepted as "exhibits," they sounded less like the beginning of a Teapot Dome than like the charges in a divorce suit. Samples: that Chairman Morgan, in an Atlantic Monthly article on public power programs, had "impugned the integrity of the Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George...