Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in a "disconnected and scattered" way, Chairman Morgan had proposed a separate TVA coinage, and taking land away from farmers who misused...
...Morgan v. Colleagues. In 1931, toward the end of his presidency of Antioch College, Dr. Morgan was obliged to rest his mind with a long vacation in Europe. The private view of many of his critics is that he needs to rest his mind again. The form, substance and manner of the case which he last week presented bore out no such view. He was calm, cogent, precise. He began by stating that he accused his colleagues of no dishonesty except intellectual dishonesty. Said...
...Morgan hammered both his former colleagues when he came to the Berry Marble Case. In the Senate Chamber nowadays, Major George Leonard Berry sits very quietly, a bit dejectedly, his thinning hair plastered sidewise over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan...
Colleagues v. Morgan. First to reply to Arthur Morgan next day was quiet little Harcourt Morgan. He deplored the fact that, whereas Dr. Arthur's original charges "have been generally understood ... to be charges of personal financial dishonesty and corruption," only now, three months later, were they known not to be charges of graft. "During these many weeks a heavy cloud has rested on Mr. Lilienthal and myself, as well as the entire staff of TVA. . . . The most painful experience that I have suffered in nearly 40 years of connection with public undertakings...
...then declared that, from the very first meeting of the TVA board, Chairman Morgan had taken bit in teeth and galloped off in many directions. He had fired at them "a series of unrelated proposals, some of which were details, others which were of far-reaching and startling significance." Examples...