Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked the constitutional props out from under NRA in the first test case of that No. 1 New Deal agency...
...McCarl's 394-page report on TVA for fiscal 1934 was issued in four copies. One was whisked out of sight at the White House, two went to TVA headquarters. The fourth remained in the Comptroller General's Office, subject to inspection by Congressmen but not the general public. Representative Andrew Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Ky., a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, visited the Comptroller General's office with a consulting engineer named John E. Cassidy who made extracts from the report which last week came out piecemeal at the Committee hearings...
...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...
...Morgan hotly defended TVA, declared the report unfair, insisted everything could be explained. Said he: "The principal difficulty of Government operation of any project is the tendency toward inflexibility of management. . . . We did our best to get around it. ... It apparently boils down to a question of whose judgment shall decide questions on the job-the engineers or the auditors...
...this Mr. McCarl admitted, pointing out that his report would be finally revised after hearing TVA's answers. Perhaps everything could be explained satisfactorily...