PRESIDENT INTERVENES
T.V.A. DISPUTE
CHAIRMAN REMOVED.
. POWER QUESTIONED
WASHINGTON, March 23,
A controversy which presents one of .the gravest threats to the prestige of President Roosevelt came to a head when the President removed the chairman,' Mr. Arthur Morgan, from the, Tennessee Valley Authority charged with the duty of development of the Tennessee River system, because the latter refused to substantiate charges he made against the two other members of the body except before a Congressional committee.
The chairman, Mr. Morgan, has ojpenly defied President Roosevelt during several hearings by the President, in which the latter called the three members before him.
A bitter controversy has resulted in attraction nationwide attention, and is expected to have important political repercussions. • ; i
The chairman had alleged dishonesty and want of integrity against Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan and. Mr. David Lilienthal, his co-members of the Tennessee Valley Authority, particularly in connection with a case of condemnation of lands by the Authority.
A Congressional investigation into the whole matter is now considered certain. In the meantime the question has been raised of the President* power to remove Mr. Morgan.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 9
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