Word: nationally
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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...
...doubt about his guilt, have made Mooney, to a majority of the U. S. (as revealed by a Gallup Poll last January), seem the victim of an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In San Quentin jail. Convict Mooney has come to see himself clearly in the role of the nation's No. 1 martyr. In his 21-year fight to prove his innocence, Tom Mooney has thrice emerged from San Quentin to tell his story of the bombing to California courts in San Francisco. Last week, he made his fourth and longest excursion, this time to tell the same story...
When Congress passed the second Agricultural Adjustment Act last month, most complex of its many complexities appeared to be the means whereby marketing quotas were to be established by a nation-wide vote of farmers. Last week, first two referendums held under the new bill indicated that at least this part of its machinery was in good working order. Farmers in 20 States went to filling stations, schools, grange halls to cast ballots on whether or not the Department of Agriculture should impose quotas on 1938 crops of cotton and tobacco. Counted by AAA County Committees and forwarded...
Orator Hitler came out on a balcony, could not make himself heard, retired, emerged and again could not outroar his welcome. At the third trial the Modern Caesar was heard to cry: "German compatriots! Seventy-five million people in one nation [huzzahs, shrieks] are stirred to the depths of feeling which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...
...Very much alone under the klieg lights, as Stalin's cameras looked them in the eye, the 21 did not know that such a typical U. S. liberal as Oswald Garrison Villard, who for years has been a friendly observer of Communism, was declaring last week in The Nation: "The Kremlin is undermining everything good the Revolution sought to accomplish. . . . Madness has taken charge of the Soviets. . . . Great states fall . . . when the masses awake to the fact that justice no longer reigns among them, that murder stalks in the very halls of justice...