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Almost overnight CWA graft had festered up to make ugly headlines and set honest heads to shaking. President Roosevelt was getting 300 letters a day complaining about padded payrolls, false expense accounts, job-selling and political preference in CWA projects. Harry Lloyd Hopkins, young New York social worker whom the President made CWA head to put 4,000,000 men to work over the winter, had complaints from every State in the union except Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Admitting that he was "tremendously disconcerted" by the charges of graft against his organization, Mr. Hopkins declared...
...Public Works Administration whose slowness in providing jobs caused the CWA to be set up as a temporary measure, took the job of investigating CWA complaints. Fifteen CWA and three PWA graft cases* were handed over to the Attorney General for investigation. Mr. Hopkins began sending out Army engineers to check up on CWA work. When he appointed one for Cook County, Ill. (Chicago), the entire Illinois CWA Commission promptly resigned...
...Iowa last week a grand jury investigating PWA graft indicted Lieutenant Governor Nelson George Kraschel for conspiracy to defraud the Government...
Samuel Seabury returned to Manhattan from a European vacation a few days ahead of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who had quipped that he did not dare travel on free passes so long as the famed New York inquisitor of Tam many graft was also abroad. When a newshawk reminded Mr. Seabury that "General" Farley had visited James John ("Jimmy") Walker* whom the Seabury investigation had driven discredited from City Hall into exile. Inquisitor Seabury flared: "It was not an edifying sight to see the Postmaster General of the United States make a pilgrimage to meet Mr. Walker...
...tissues before he fixes them in their new home. To acclimatize new gland tissue, Professor Stone takes a quantity of the patient's blood, drains out the serum. The serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential...