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...rose Texas Representative Fritz Lanham to read a letter he had received from his constituent with the Army Air Forces in North Africa, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt. Having seen the Lambertson charges in a newspaper brought to Casablanca by his father, Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt wrote...
...LANHAM Carmel, Calif...
Anticipating this crisis, Congress had passed the Lanham Act, appropriating $150,000,000 for schools and other public facilities in defense centers (TIME, July 14). But the schools ran into all sorts of priorities and bottlenecks. The Federal Works Agency, in charge of the fund, gave first call to water and sewers. Of 600 emergency schoolhouses applied for, only 29 had final approval last week and none was yet under construction...
Meanwhile, without batting an eye, Mayor Jackson admitted that although he refused to spend the city's money he had applied for $875,000 under the Lanham Act to build schools...
...left the House after one term as Speaker, his Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas' importance in the Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length of uninterrupted Congressional tenure) heads the committees on Commerce, Military Affairs and (to the New Deal's recent...