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...from dawn to dusk during his stay at Warm Springs, were Mrs. Roosevelt and her two inseparable companions, shaggy-haired Nancy Cook and schoolmarmish Marian Dickerman. With these the President drove to the Warm Springs railway station last week, through avenues of cheering neighbors and rows of khaki-clad CCC foresters. His fellow-travelers thought he had taken on a little weight...
From Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove to nearby CCC Camp Meriwether. In the yellow pine mess hall he received a cake 18 in. tall, congratulated woodsters on having "the most artistic camp I have ever seen," and concluded: "I hope that Congress, when it convenes, will continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for another year...
...lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which beats the crossword puzzle...
First the purchase of 700 of the 1,600 trucks was transferred from the CCC to the War Department. Ford Dealer Ralph Paul Sabine, the low bidder, promptly protested that the War Department was trying to change the specifications so as to throw out the Ford bid. This ruse discovered, the responsibility for purchasing the 700 trucks was handed back to the CCC by the War Department...
Tuesday she rode horseback in the morning, consulted with representatives of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration about establishing urban clubs for single unemployed women to correspond to the CCC's winter encampments. After lunch she received diplomatic wives whom she had not yet met: Mmes Simopoulos (Greece), May (Belgium). Sze (China), de Bianchi (Portugal). Later there were 175 assorted tea guests. At midnight she entrained for Manhattan...