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When Senator Berry himself took the stand, TVA Lawyer Alvin Ziegler dramatically produced a sheaf of documents. These, presented to the three presiding commissioners, turned out to be powers of attorney issued by several farmers about the time the TVA act was passed to Partners Berry and Harris, authorizing them to act as their agents for a 50% commission in financial transactions with the Government...
Angrily denying that he had ever seen the "affidavits" and banging his fist in rage over Lawyer Ziegler's attempts to read into tne record an excerpt from a celebrated 1921 Pressmen's Union dispute in which he & the union directors were charged with misappropriating funds, Senator Berry cried: "Why don't you hit above the belt...
...Were you hitting above the belt when you took those powers of attorney?" snapped Lawyer Ziegler...
When Lawyer Ziegler went on to introduce leases changed in 1935 whereby 62½% of claim proceeds went to the lessors, documents that bore the large Berry signature, Senator Berry had already left the hearings, explaining that his presence was necessary for Senate consideration of the Farm Bill...
Place of honor in Professor Ziegler's rubbish was occupied by a futuristic oil painting, The Adventurer by Satirist George Grosz, done in 1917 and sold in 1928 to the Dresden Stadt-Museum. Gaping Nazis gazed at the figure of a cowboy poised with savage alertness and virility amid cubistic vortices of skyscrapers, smokestacks, scaffolding, jazz dancers, bright lights and detached female contours, the Stars & Stripes appearing over his right shoulder. Not on exhibition were any of Grosz's brambly line drawings of Nazi Jew baitings and miscellaneous bestialities which won him, besides an international reputation, the special...