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...passing the bill for a permanent CCC, Congress recently reduced Director Robert Fechner's salary from...
...Passed (67-to-2) a bill that would make the Civilian Conservation Corps a permanent organization and reduce the annual salary of Director Robert Fechner from $12,000 to $10,000, after voting down the bill passed by the House last fortnight that would extend the CCC for only two more years. Sent it to a Senate-House conference committee...
...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 help...
...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 on such...
...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 him, President Roosevelt was Southbound...