Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...times his whole family of four had to live on his $3.50 weekly wage. As he grew older Aubrey got other jobs, studied nights in a Y.M.C.A. He earned his way at Maryville College, Tenn. by painting signs and at University of Cincinnati by managing a Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy...
...Aubrey Williams' rich planter grandfather voluntarily freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...
...executive order the President forthwith created a National Youth Administration, with Aubrey Williams as executive director, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche as executive committee chairman. Following the usual New Deal formula, there were to be 48 State Youth Divisions under 48 State Youth Directors, plus Youth Committees in cities, towns, counties. Beneficiaries would be all boys & girls aged 16 to 25 not regularly attending school...
...AUBREY STARKE Centralia...