Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last winter the experimenters chosen to do the job had become one of the President's worst headaches. Quarreling among the three TVA directors obliged him to call them to the White House to try their charges against one another. He was pained when Chairman Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, insisting that the trial would not be adequate, refused to discuss with the President his complaints against his co-directors, insisted on taking them to Congress (TIME, March 21). When the President dismissed him as TVA's chairman, Arthur Morgan went right on using the title...
Last week Dr. Morgan's time came. A Congressional joint committee of five members from each house, headed by Ohio's affable, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Making use of Harvard and local athletes, the Fatigue Laboratory in the basement of Morgan Hall in the Business School works quietly and continually. Clarence De Mar, San Romani, Johnny Kelley, Cunningham, Venzke, even Barry Wood have undergone tests by riding stationary bicycles and performing other fatiguing exercises. In addition, several dogs are employed to measure their amount of heart beats and quantity of lactic acid. The Harvard's Film Service has produced a moving picture for the Laboratory...
Born. To Louise Converse Morgan Clark, eldest granddaughter of John Pierpont Morgan, and Raymond Skinner Clark; their first child and Banker Morgan's first great-grandchild; a son; in New Haven, Conn...
...Chairman Harcourt Morgan and I are gratified at the outcome of this negotiation," said David Lilienthal. "This contract encourages me to believe that in the near future in other pending situations in the Tennessee Valley region, contracts of this character may likewise take the place of litigation and conflict, so that all of us can devote ourselves wholly to constructive work...