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...demanding a full-fledged Congressional investigation of his colleagues, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal, in language that suggested that their great enterprise might be the Teapot Dome of the Roosevelt Administration (TIME, March 14). So last week the three TVA directors appeared in Washington for their long threatened showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless...
...Pasionaria then retired from active direction, leaving the field to President Donald Henderson of the C. I. O. Cannery Workers, who flew from Washington to take charge. For by this time it was apparent that the piddling pecan strike would probably turn out to be a C. I. O. showdown in Texas, where John L. Lewis has yet to make much headway...
Coach Mann, disgruntled over the nationwide ballyhoo given Yale's invincibility, demanded a showdown. But Yale year after year had no open date on its schedule. This rebuff, although probably unintentional, precipitated one of the most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
...Ever since 1900, when a moving frontler ceased to take up unemployment resulting from technological advances in labor-saving machinery, we have been facing a showdown with the Machine," Governor Earle stated. "The World War and the subsequent inflation bubble which burst in 1929 only postponed that showdown...
...When the showdown comes, the world will see that Japan has no unreasonable ambitions," declared Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador, interviewed in his office at the Washington embassy during the vacation...