Word: tv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing to express my surprise at your magazine apologizing for anything it could say concerning Mr. Lilienthal of the TV A after their action in Knoxville. Al Capone's highjacking bandits never did a more outrageous piece of robbery than the Tennessee Valley Authorities did in the case of the Tennessee Electric Power and Light Co. The idea of forcing a transaction such as they did and allowing not one cent for the stockholders is one of the greatest pieces of economic injustice that even the New Deal, whose new dealers are very apt to deal from the bottom...
...loss of holding company equities. However, Bond & Share and Commonwealth & Southern, the systems most vitally affected, have lately acquired a flock of allies which may sand Mr. Lilienthal's high-speed gears. A potent group of bituminous coal operators have filed suit, challenging the Constitutionality of the whole TV A program. Electrical equipment dealers are pouting at the narrow profit margins on Electric Home & Farm Authority lines. Ice and fuel dealers, whose business is threatened with extinction, are up in arms. The American Federation of Labor is bitter against the trade schools which TV A Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan...
...playing these games. Should we be criticized for not wishing black eyes, broken limbs and worn-out bodies for the glory of Old Nassau? . . . When you meet a Princeton man in years to come he will be wearing a Phi Beta Kappa key in preference to a var- sity TV...