Word: fechner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first direct attack upon ranks of 13,000,000 unemployed. By authority of last fortnight's relief act, he issued an order creating the C. C. C. and providing it with $10,000,000 as a starter. Appointed Director of Emergency Conservation Work (salary: $10,200) was Robert Fechner, 57. of Massachusetts, a vice president of the International Association of Machinists. The selection of this tall, austere Laborite was a sop to the A. F. of L. and its opposition to $1-per-day relief work...