Discuss sale of private utilities in TVA area. Washington, D.C., March 16. Tennessee Valley Authority Director David E. Lillienthal, (left) and Wendell L. Willkie, President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, met today in the first of series of conferences to discuss the sale of private utilities to communities in the TVA area. At the Conclusion of the morning session, no definite decision had been reached in the negotiations, 3/16/1938