National Affairs: TV Advance

Last week Chairman Arthur E. Morgan and Director David E. Lilienthal of Tennessee Valley Authority sat in the same House of Representatives gallery seats so lately vacated by "Power Trust" lobbyists, eagerly watching an experiment in child psychology. Fortnight ago the House, in bold defiance of President Roosevelt, flatly refused to vote a "death sentence" upon utility .holding companies. Now Dr. Morgan and Mr. Lilienthal were particularly interested to see whether it would cap one defiance with another, or whether the President was justified in his confidence that, frightened by its previous temerity,...

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