Word: utilitymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
...hands since Jan. 18. Having been prepared before the chairman's charges were made, it did not answer them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...
Proposals. The collaboration with private utilitymen to which Director Lilienthal objected was a conference called at the White House in the autumn of 1936 at Chairman Morgan's suggestion, at which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie and other utilitymen discussed a "power pool" for merging TVA and private power systems. David Lilienthal has proposed a version of the power pool himself but at the time it looked to him as though Chairman Morgan was consorting with the enemy. David Lilienthal considered himself justified in his opinion, inasmuch as five months before the White House "love feast" (whose...
...claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private power facilities on behalf of 400 communities in the TVA area. To this Mr. Willkie, who last year dramatically begged the Government to buy his properties instead of ruining them, replied that he would be "delighted...
...Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...