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Next afternoon when she and President Roosevelt should have been rattling southward by train, they and Secretary of War Dern were splashing by motor car over Maryland's drenched roads to see the flooded Potomac...
...Florida's fishing grounds; again for 24 hours; finally for 24 hours more. With pen instead of fishing rod in hand, he signed a proclamation urging citizens to contribute $3,000,000 for Red Cross flood relief. Around his desk assembled his Flood Emergency Committee: War Secretary Dern (rescues), Red Cross Admiral Gary T. Grayson (food, clothing, medicine), CCCommandant Fechner (rescues and patrol duty), WPAdministrator Hopkins (repair of dikes, sewers, water supplies), Treasury Secretary Morgenthau (finance). After three days Secretary Dern appeared with the announcement that the flood was receding. Next noon, with this act of God behind...
Last December Representative Blanton of Texas wrote Secretary of War Dern asking to have Generals Brown, Drum, Malone and Hagood testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee, and requesting that they be not restrained by the War Department from making full and frank answers. General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, replied that the officers named "will be instructed by me in person that they are to answer you freely, fully and frankly...
...terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such an attack on his WPA. The War Department undoubtedly felt that General Hagood had been talking out of turn too long. Republican Senator Metcalf hung full responsibility for the Hagood ouster on President Roosevelt by declaring on the floor of the Senate...
...month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader can get, pointed out that...