Word: tv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last November filled the TV A investigating committee with unflattering accounts of TVA accounting practices...
...approved before all nine members of Board of Regents the subject of the Tennessee Valley Authority-housing program being discussed in a class where the general subject of housing was being studied. This action on my part was made necessary because one recent now resigned disapproved discussion of a TV A subject in a university class. I respectfully ask correction of your misstatement...
...Legal authorization for acts that Federal Judge W'illiam Irwin ("Unconstitutional") Grubb of Alabama had declared illegal under the original TV...
...President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors. Dr. Morgan just wanted to be sure that the President would not stand for the constrictive changes which the House Military Affairs Committee made in his TV Amendments. Mr. Roosevelt just wanted to ask whether Dr. Morgan would take care of 18-year-old Son John Roosevelt for the summer, give him an unpaid job doing TVA "field surveys." They had no disagreement about obliging each other...
...whipping his 1936 budget into shape for Congress, President Roosevelt found time to have oldtime Democrat Newton D. Baker to lunch at the White House. The Wartime Secretary of War was there not as a Party man but as an attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson; Thomas N. McCarter, head of the Edison Electric Institute (utility...