Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right to a Job." Aubrey Williams, emotional Deputy WPAdministrator in Washington, who last fortnight bluntly told WPAsters how to vote (see p. 13), last week bluntly stated to the Conference his basic conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic...
...Committee passed two solemn judgments. It ruled that: 1) the ultimate author of WPA benefits, Franklin Roosevelt, when as Head of the Democratic Party he addresses the whole country (as he did in a heart-to-heart radio talk fortnight ago) is above criticism in appealing for votes; 2) Aubrey Williams, Deputy WPAdministrator was not above criticism in his appeal last fortnight to the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) to ''keep your friends in power." (TIME, July...
...Crowding Aubrey Williams out of the headlines last week came his chief, Harry Hopkins, with a detailed answer to detailed reports, by Scripps-Howard Reporter Thomas L. Stokes, of WPA pressurizing in Kentucky for the renomination of Senate Majority Leader Barkley. Mr. Hopkins had sent some of his people into Kentucky to check up on Reporter Stokes's allegations. Out of 22 alleged improprieties, only two had been substantiated: 1) A WPA county supervisor, Lee Garden, had distributed political registration cards among WPA workers; 2) A WPA district foreman, Cleve Keeney, had told WPAsters under him they "were going...
Following these announcements, Mr. Hopkins' deputy, Aubrey Williams, exhorted 800 Workers' Alliance delegates: "You know who your friends are. Keep your friends in power...
These staggering activities are today administered by Aubrey Williams, onetime social worker, whose salary is $9,500 a year. Relief Chief Harry Hopkins, who gets $12,000 a year, is conservative with the public's money, an inveterate gambler with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...