Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Aubrey Williams, Deputy Administrator of WPA, told relief clients to "keep your friends in power." Fortnight ago David Lasser, able, ambitious, long-nosed little president of the Workers Alliance (which claims 1,000,000 unemployed as members, of whom 400,000 pay 10?-50? monthly dues and are mostly WPA workers) called on his followers to raise a $50,000 Workers Alliance campaign fund for the fall elections. Last week this proved too much even for Mr. Williams' easy-going boss, Harry Hopkins...
...Workers Alliance of America, which boasts that it controls 2,000,000 WPA votes, last week took steps to follow Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams' counsel to "keep your friends in power!" (TIME, July 4.) To every candidate for Congress, President David Lasser of the Alliance sent a questionnaire, the answers to which would be "made available to your constituency." Sample question: "Do you favor an increase in wages to the WPA workers to permit them a minimum decent existence...
...unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put into CCC camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic work to students...
...Workers' Education project educates workers in their spare time. Across the country 60,000 laborers attend classes before and after hours in mining camps, sugar-beet shacks, cotton warehouses, union halls, construction sheds. Last week 18 State supervisors of WPA-WE reported to Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the gnarls in Workers' Education...
...jure what he is de facto-an important member of the President's Cabinet. He may yet do so next session. If and when a new Department of Welfare is created, it will doubtless be staffed by Harry Hopkins' present crew headed by idealistic Chief Deputy Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams who also is chief of the National Youth Administration. As a new Department of the Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking made of Interior, for years the great catch-all department...