Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly more secret than the court fight between the utilities and TVA is the struggle that has gone on for months within the TVA board itself. Its chief contestants are Engineer Arthur Ernest Morgan, for 16 years president at Antioch College, now chairman of TVA's board, and Lawyer David Eli Lilienthal, onetime law associate of Donald Richberg, now a TVA director. Every time one of them has called on the President and emerged smiling, rumor has whispered through Washington that the other...
...Morgan should go, many lovers of TVA would be grieved, for when he started in 1933, he was able to gather an unusually able engineering staff about him both because of his personal reputation and because Depression had deprived most engineers of jobs. Many of his staff could be counted on to quit with him and they could not be replaced. More important, however, if Arthur Morgan should quit, those persons would be grieved who would like to see the breach between the utilities and the New Deal healed. If Mr. Lilienthal should quit those would be grieved who would...
Hitherto Franklin Roosevelt has smiled on both and kept both in their jobs. Last week, however, came an indication that this must soon end. Whether or not Arthur Morgan felt that the cause of moderation was losing, he felt that the time had come to appeal to the public. He issued a formal statement, setting down his personal views. Long and mild, indulging in no personalities, it turned out to be a state paper setting forth the fundamental choice in power policies that lies before the New Deal, expounding a great schism in liberal philosophy...
...getter-in Senator Wheeler put on the stand that old investigation favorite, Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange. It developed that Broker Whitney and his predecessor as Stock Exchange president, Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, were on the famed "Morgan preferred list" for 1,000 shares each of Alleghany common stock. They got their allotments before they received application to list the stock...
Senator Wheeler: And you still think it was all right for you to accept from Morgan the Alleghany common at $20 when the market...