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...written order from the Squire put seven agencies, including AAA and FERA, under authority of the Budget Bureau, from which they were the last of the ''emergency'' organizations still exempt. Reason: The emergency is over...
This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...
...strikers had no immediate prospect of personal gain. On the contrary, they walked out on a 50% raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
...Since FERA has consistently refused to discriminate against private strikers, New York's relief strikers pooh-poohed General Johnson's talk, expected to live on home relief. But in Washington, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins surprised them by promising that whatever home relief they got would be from states or cities because the Federal Government would not contribute a cent to their support. Snapped he: "There is no such thing as a strike on a relief...
Last spring Omaha students, assembling in mass meeting, charged that Dr. W. H. Thompson, Dean of Men, hired some of their number with FERA money to sit in on classes, report radical statements by professors. Regretfully Dr. Sealock said that there was such a spy system. The regents said there was not. Three weeks ago Dr. Sealock was voted out of office...