Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority startled Washington and the nation by demanding a full-fledged Congressional investigation of his colleagues, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal, in language that suggested that their great enterprise might be the Teapot Dome of the Roosevelt Administration (TIME, March 14). So last week the three TVA directors appeared in Washington for their long threatened showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt...
Proposals. The collaboration with private utilitymen to which Director Lilienthal objected was a conference called at the White House in the autumn of 1936 at Chairman Morgan's suggestion, at which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie and other utilitymen discussed a "power pool" for merging TVA and private power systems. David Lilienthal has proposed a version of the power pool himself but at the time it looked to him as though Chairman Morgan was consorting with the enemy. David Lilienthal considered himself justified in his opinion, inasmuch as five months before the White House "love feast" (whose...
...Ford and Morgan swing...
...brokers could not believe their ears. Indeed, as the report shot through Wall Street it was not believed until the Stock Exchange issued a public statement. For Richard Whitney was the Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That...
...Night" and murmer "I love you" in sort of a weak whisper. Eleanor Powell is well cast, because she is also unable to act. She appears in those long black silk stockings, does a few unoriginal dance numbers and lets it go at that. It is left to Frank Morgan and a light-footed little man named Ray Bolger to give the picture its few redeeming features, but they are not enough. And to make matters worse, "Borrowing Trouble," another saga of the Jones family, finishes off the bill. The whole thing is unfortunate...