The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-21

man Authority. They are man, and David E. Lilienthi not involved. The two men
 Dr. Morgan, an engineer, and preSident-on n-leave from Antioch college, has charge of the socia- welfare phases of the great power project. He is trying to build up Q new kind of power-minded com- munity in the south.
 The Story Goes
 Lilienthal, a lawyer, and former member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, has directed TWAS distribution of power and the numerous legal battles which have attended 1t.
 Young, brilliant, dynamic, Llllenthal has many strong ad- malrers in the Administration and Congress, also is the most pubIlcixed of the three Author fly members.
 Friends of Morgan say that Lilienthal is aggressive and push. ing" has been secretly. trying to ''undermlne" the chairman, wants the place for himself.
 Lilienthal's friends, on the other hand, accuse Morgan of jealousy, say he is Q difficult man to get along with, is at loggerheads with other IVA officials.
 Ultamatum
 This undercover vendetta came to a head some weeks ago, when a communication from the White House addressed to Authority was turned over to Lilienthal by IVA clerk. Morgan deeply re- sented this, considered 1t complete confirmation of his charge that Lilienthal was trying to usurp the chairmanship.
 Whereup0n he went to the President, asked him not to re- appoint Lilienthal. Morgan ace tlally intimated that # Lillen- thai were renamed, he would quiet. (EEls term still has six years to run.) Morgan also sug- gested several men as successors to Lillenthal, among them John l.. Medley, . IVA engineer.
 The President, in turn, called In Senator Norris of Nebraska, as he does on all IVA problems. Norris urged the reappointment of Lilien- thai regardless of anything Mor- gan said or did. If 1t were 0 choice between the two men, he told the President, he considered Lilienthal the more desirable. FDR For Compromise
 The President informed Norris he would reappoint Lilienthal, but that he did not want to lose Nor gan. He suggested that m ef- fort be made to bring the two men together.
 Mutual friends of the two TVAers have been working on them to this end. Last week, with the expiration of Lilienthal's term only three days away, Norris urged the Senate Agriculture Committee to approve his reappointment, even though the President had not sent 1t to the Senate. This iS com- pletely unprecedented. Tradition ally the Senate waits for the President to act first.
 Nevertheless the committee In this case approved David Lilien- thai unanimously.
 Real Love
 Senator McAdoo wears a happy grin these days as he fits from place to place with his girl-bride. The senator, now 74 years old, af- fleets hobby youthful clothes, toss. es his hat half way across hotel lobbies to checkroom girls, kids Waitresses, and rningles with cock tail slippers as capriciously as Q college boy. It must be real love. Ritzy NeighbOrs
 The Rural Electrification Ad- ministration, housed in tho old home of James c. Blaine, recently had to pay the penalty of being in the Swankiest residential dis- trict in the Capital.
 Administrator Morris L. Cooke has transformed the third floor of thc Blaine mansion into drafting room. There his en- glneers sit at their drawing boards in shlrt-sleeveS, sOme- times working late at night.
 Apparently the neighbors of the late James c. Blaine do not be- lieve in shirt-sleeves. They conn- plained.
 At first Cooke paid no atten- ton. But the protests became 50 emphatic that finally ho ordered the third floor equipped with Venetian blinds, 50 the shirt sleeved draftsmen would net out rage the aesthetic sense of the neighbors.
 NOTE-Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, ono of REA's neigh bors, did not complain.
 Lucky Thirteen
 Thirteen has been lucky num- Der for the National Labor Rela- tions Board.
 Early efforts of that body to referee industrial disputes were frustrated by injunctions, one af- ter another, up to thirteen. Dis- trict courts restrained the NLRB even from holding hearings to ~wawa kwSvvwA w~-~~~~