Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lean Arthur Ernest Morgan is a top-flight civil engineer, an expert on flood control, a famed progressive educator, and a man of stern and often inflexible ideas. Plain, stringy Harcourt A. Morgan is a farmer and entomologist who came to TVA from the Presidency of the University of Tennessee, and knows more about Tennessee Valley farmers than anyone in the Authority. David Eli Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down...
Marble Bait. Chairman Morgan's ammunition was an extraordinary set of mineral leases for the exploitation of marble deposits on land flooded by the construction of the Authority's Norris Dam. One of the chief leaseholders is none other than Tennessee's loud, egregious Senator George Leonard Berry, who bought them from farmers in the district for an immediate cash consideration of about $1 apiece. But George Berry has been a potent figure in the Roosevelt Administration and when he filed complaints against the TVA for damages on his marble properties, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according...
...loss of the two or three millions by his firm. As vice-president in charge of the New York Exchange in October, 1929, when securities were plunging down at the rate of ten points a day, Mr. Whitney temporarily halted the crash. Representing the hastily-formed pool of Morgan and other bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President of the Exchange, he was a truculent critic of the Administration, since he opposed federal regulation of security markets...
Frank M. Ruhlen 3L, and Rudolf A. Lewis 3L, took second place with 95.3 points. Third place in the tournament went to Paul E. Morgan '39 and W. E. Huenekens '39, who were the only undergraduates to place in the first three...
Died. Seymour Parker Gilbert, 45, youthful prodigy of U. S. business, one-time (1924-30) Agent General for Reparations Payments in Germany, since 1931 a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. As a young U. S. Treasury assistant to Secretaries McAdoo, Glass, Houston, Mellon, he often worked until nearly dawn, then showed up on time for morning work. As a young Reparations agent he harvested from Germany, distributed to the Allies, $26,000,000,000 in cash and chattels...