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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...
...Aubrey Smith is fine as the understanding priest, and Thomas Mitchell as the governor's counselor is equally good. Dorothy Lamour is adequate as Mr. Hall's pretty and passionate wife. John Ford directed. "Wise Girl," with Miriam Hopkins, is as good a companion picture as can be expected under the circumstances...
...Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
...agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams reported that 100,000 names had been added to WPA rolls. And Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins announced that 570,000 lost their jobs between mid-October and mid-November, that weekly industrial payrolls fell...