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Early this week, back from vacation, the President suddenly summoned his congressional henchmen and told them to tear up all their scribblings and simply pass a measure empowering him to appoint a policy-making commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face...
Last week the Mississippi Legislature moved to give Father Collins his reward. By a vote of 19 to 16 the Senate passed a bill authorizing the county sheriff to appoint him hangman at the execution of the Negroes this week. The Senator who introduced it explained that the bill was meant to apply only to the Hernando case, that he would move its repeal the day after Special Hangman Collins springs the trap...
...give $400 towards a school or college whereof $200 to be paid the next years, & $200 when the work is finished, & the next Court to appoint wheare and what building...
Graft. All this haste in pushing out Federal money has resulted in cases of padded payrolls and political favoritism. Last week PWA had 130 investigators looking into CWA & PWA frauds. Mr. Hopkins had to appoint Army Engineers to take charge of CWA work in Chicago and Los Angeles. In Colorado he supplanted a state committee that was not getting action because of political quarrels by one of his own administrators...
...went to France he sent only $300, informed her she would get no more, thereby forced her to return to the U. S., where she sold apples at a corner stand. Since 1932 she has lived on $10 per week from a charity organization. She asked the court to appoint a lawyer to press her suit...