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Said South Carolina's adroit Jimmy Byrnes: "No cotton farmer and no wheat farmer can compete [for labor] with WPA wages."
Besides Jimmy Byrnes, Alva Adams-and Jack Garner-the man responsible for aligning votes to beat Leader Barkley and the Administration in this first big Senate showdown of the year, was Pat Harrison. The result showed how much wiser Franklin Roosevelt might have been had he let that shrewd old...
He insisted that Recovery was the reason for the sharp decline in WPA rolls since November's elections, and thereby gave them an argument against a big new WPA fund. Meanwhile, Senators studied a report by a special committee under South Carolina's Byrnes which, if translated into...
> Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution...
Jack Garner was reported perfectly willing to see Harry Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief...