Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard to say: "I am not sure that class warfare is not all right...
...Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition. Last week from the death-house came a highly articulate croak...
...standing offer to sell vast C. & S. outright to the Government before it is destroyed piecemeal. Last week Mr. Willkie was again yanked to Washington by a House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity...
...committee, Mr. Willkie gave a vivid picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that...
Sadly detailing his own experiences with TVA, Mr. Willkie claimed that every time his negotiations with TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal reached a crucial point, "there has been an interesting coincidence in threats of duplication, either from the PWA or the Chattanooga Power Board...