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...famed "purge" of radicals two years later. Victor Christgau was next given the $6,500 job of setting up WPA in his home State. Since 1935 he has administered $95,000,000 worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative, as Minnesota's acting WPAdministrator...
...headed Belgium's coalition Cabinet of Liberals, Socialists and Catholics for the past six months, last week asked for increased taxes to carry on his social reforms. Catholic members, loud in their demands for cuts in Government expenditures, promptly bolted M. Janson's coalition, joined their own bitterest enemies, the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Léon Degrelle, to vote against the tax proposals. M. Janson then chose to resign...
...Wendell Willkie are two New Deal policies: 1) direct competition with the utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest of all the battles between Franklin Roosevelt and Big Business and the loser has been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion and replacement, the utilities have been getting along on $130,000,000. When renewed Depression jabbed this point home to the President last...
Shouted at a packed Senate Chamber by Massachusetts' David Walsh, these violent words week were the final major volley of the bitterest political fight of 1938-against Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the executive department of the Federal Government. After portly Mr. Walsh had completed his tirade, echoed only a shade less vehemently by Senators Tydings, Vandenberg and Borah, the Reorganization Bill came to its two final votes...
...this was very important news to wildlife conservationists, 2.000 of whom-trout fishermen, farmers, Camp Fire Girls, scientists, sentimentalists-gathered in Baltimore last week for the third North American Wildlife Conference, welcomed news of the Des Plaines Valley experiment. Mosquito control was the subject of the conference's bitterest debate. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of Eastern and Southern States, which end-to-end would belt the world almost 2½ times, have dried away vegetation, starved wildlife. Said Audubon Societies' William Vogt: "Intelligently conceived, expertly prosecuted, adequately maintained, and completely justified mosquito control is as rare...