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...divided within itself. Last week a House Appropriations subcommittee lopped $500,000,000 off the President's recommended $1,500,000,000 for Relief. This looked like a sign of real revolt. But the House knew that all President Roosevelt really cared about was to keep the CCC going. And the full House Appropriations Committee, reportedly after telephone calls from the South, swiftly cancelled its subcommittee's action by restoring the half-billion Relief dollars...
There are about 1,600 full and part-time Army chaplains, 126 attached to the regular force, 200 to the CCC, the remainder to the National Guard and Reserve Corps. For every 100,000 civilian members of a U. S. church, one chaplain .is supplied to the Army, an interfaith commission acting as clearing house for the men. Applicants, who must be ordained and have three years' pastoral experience, take a stiff examination, if successful are commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with...
While Franklin Roosevelt was splashing in a glass-covered swimming pool, driving out to inspect Rural Resettlement and CCC projects, and generally amusing himself last week at Warm Springs, taunts were being hurled at him from a distance. Why, the taunters demanded, did he not do something about Sit-Down Strikes...
...Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants of the U. S. (see p. 45), but nothing so meticulous...
...cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs to the flood area. WPA had thousands of men at work on the levees, and this week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins starts on a tour to plan rehabilitation behind the flood. CCC had more thousands working at flood relief but the biggest job, the biggest responsibility and the biggest headache belonged to the U. S. Army...