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...What did you do yesterday outside of seeing Mr. Richberg...
...often inflexible ideas. Plain, stringy Harcourt A. Morgan is a farmer and entomologist who came to TVA from the Presidency of the University of Tennessee, and knows more about Tennessee Valley farmers than anyone in the Authority. David Eli Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down to its essentials, means simply that Powerman Lilienthal, whose chief interest is selling cheap power, and Engineer Morgan, who disapproves of the constant struggling with...
Before going to the White House the five had lunch with Donald Richberg who represents the spirit of NRA which still flutters in the back of Franklin Roosevelt's mind. Mr. Richberg was supposed to precede the others to the White House to inform the President of their mood and current notions. Whether by accident or design, they kept Mr. Richberg talking until just before their 5 p. m. appointment. What went on when they entered the President's office was not disclosed. It appeared afterward that while there had been no criminations from either side, there...
...heads of important bureaus, N. E. C.'s job was to co-ordinate all other New Deal agencies, let the public know what they were up to. Headed by two of the President's most trusted aides, first by Frank C. Walker, then by Donald Richberg, it produced two impressive blossoms: a press intelligence service, to let Federal organizations know what U. S. newssheets were saying about them, and the United States Manual, to enable newsgatherers and others to find out what the hugely expanded roster of Government agencies were and who was in them...
...moment, Washington's chief interest centred on the question of who should succeed Justice Van Devanter. Immediately dopesters trotted out the names they have been considering ever since Court enlargement was proposed: James McCauley Landis of SEC, Donald Richberg, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter and many another. Within 24 hours, however, one name had leaped to a prominence which dwarfed all other prospects, that of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. The President is supposed to have assured him several times over that he could have the first vacancy on the Court. Senators, not only Democrats but Republicans...