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TVA-State-Local Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

M. H. Satterfield
M. H. Satterfield
Affiliation:
Tennessee Valley Authority
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Rattling the “superstate skeleton” has become the principal pastime of those who oppose the establishment of regional agencies for the development of the natural resources of the nation. While the superstate argument was used against TVA during its early existence, it forms no part of the present thinking of the people of the Tennessee Valley and their public institutions which have collaborated with TVA for the past thirteen years in the development and utilization of the resources of the region. Any needed proof of the fallacy of the argument that TVA has undermined state and local institutions in the Tennessee Valley is provided by the testimony of the governors of the seven states on the coöperative and profitable relations between their states and TVA.

Such misunderstanding as still prevails outside the Valley regarding TVA and its relationships with state and local governments seems to arise, in large measure, from the sedulous spreading of misinformation on the nature of TVA's grant of powers.

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American Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 40 , Issue 5 , October 1946 , pp. 935 - 949
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1946

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References

1 For an appraisal of these tactics, see Price, Wesley, “What Can You Believe About MVA,” Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 19, 1946, pp. 22et seq.Google Scholar

2 See St. Louis, Post Dispatch, Dec. 31, 1944.Google Scholar

3 Lilienthal, David E., TVA—Democracy on the March (New York, 1944), p. 58.Google Scholar

4 Chenery, William L., “The Taming of the Tennessee,” Colliers, Aug. 11, 1945, p. 22.Google Scholar

5 The significance of mobilizing the administrative resources of the Tennessee Valley to develop the region's resources is appraised in Clapp, Gordon R., “The Administrative Resources of a Region; The Example of the Tennessee Valley,” in New Horizons in Public Administration (University of Alabama, 1945), pp. 79–95.Google Scholar

6 A complete list of agencies having coöperative relationships with TVA is contained in an 82-page statement issued by TVA on September 1, 1945 (mimeographed).

7 The twenty-fourth meeting was held in October, 1945.

8 See Seigworth, Kenneth J., “Forest Management on Private Lands in the Tennessee Valley,” Journal of Forestry, Vol. 43, pp. 705–709 (Oct., 1945).Google Scholar

9 See Annual Report of the Tennessee Valley Authority for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1946, pp. 63–64; also Pope, James P., “Intercity Coöperation Increases,” National Municipal Review, Vol. 33, pp. 288–289 (June, 1944)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; M. H. Satterfield, “Coöperation Pays Dividends,” ibid., Vol. 31, pp. 431–435 (Sept., 1942).

10 For a fuller account of regional library service in Tennessee, see Parks, Martha and Jones, Malinda, “Regional Library Service in Tennessee,” The Tennessee Planner, Vol. 6, pp. 103–109 (Feb., 1946).Google Scholar

11 Lilienthal, op. cit., pp. 125–126.

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