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...part of the Mississippi by an unparalleled flood (see p. 12). Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Waesche as commandant of the Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator and CCC Director Fechner assembled with the President to set the wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President...
...White House, where the President stood exposed in a sort of showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator...
...Arkansans and Missourians from doing the opposite thing. "Stupid!" While Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson of the Red Cross launched a drive for $4,000,000 for flood sufferers, while Harry Hopkins put 40.000 WPA workers on rescue and relief work, while President Roosevelt mobilized Army, Navy, Coast Guard, CCC and announced that he was "taking personal charge" of the Government's relief forces, one voice raucously raised the question: How did it happen? At Memphis this week Army Engineers expect the Mississippi to reach the 53-ft. level. In the epochal 1927 flood, than which the nation...
Major costs among new functions and duties which the Government has undertaken include something under $500,000,000 a year for AAA, something under $400,000,000 for CCC, an estimate of $451,000,000 in fiscal 1938 for "General Public Works" (capital expenditures including $130,000,000 for the Army's Rivers & Harbors and Flood Control and other sums for other departments), $836,000 for Social Security...
...funeral was over Vice President Garner took him aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues...