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Nov 20, 2023 · Throughout his youth, a parade of prairie politicos would sweep through Valparaiso. William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs, Clarence Darrow, and Wisconsin governor Robert A. La Follette (whose son’s gubernatorial administration Lilienthal would join as an adult) all made stops.
David Eli Lilienthal (July 8, 1899 – January 15, 1981) was an American attorney and public administrator, best known for his Presidential Appointment to head Tennessee Valley Authority and later the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He had practiced public utility law and led the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission.
Jan 25, 2012 · What's interesting to me is a very familiar-sounding fear that Lilienthal attempts to allay: the interrelatedness of Big Business and socialism. We hear this all the time in conservative media.
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These diaries, covering Lilienthal’s years as a director off the Tennessee Valley Authority, then as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, are a day-by-day tale of pushing and shoving.
Jan 16, 1981 · David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, died of a heart attack at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in New York...
Mar 1, 1984 · David Lilienthal, born in 1899, wrote the final entry in his journal on January 2, 1981-eleven days before he died. This volume completes one of the most valuable personal historical documents of an American public man in the twentieth century.
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It is difficult not to be disappointed with Mr. Lilienthal's position on this extremely controversial subject-the role of Big Business in modern Amer-ican society. According to Mr. Lilienthal too much emphasis has been placed on bigness as evidence of monopoly. Big Business can, he says, have many
