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Last week a caravan of seven dusty Army automobiles drew up before the courthouse in Springfield, Baca County, Colo., cradle of the Dust Bowl. Out of the cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...
...last week what London papers called the most successfully secret probe ever made within the British Civil Service. It came as a "complete surprise" to even the top-flight officials of the Air Ministry when one night Squire Baldwin dismissed the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry, Sir Christopher Llewellyn Bullock...
Married. Alicia du Pont Glendening Llewellyn, 33, adopted daughter of the late Alfred Irenee du Pont; and George Ruddle Kent, 45, of Philadelphia; in Carson City...
Last week the nation's steelmen stopped glaring at Labor's John Llewellyn Lewis long enough to take a hurried look forward to the future, a hasty glance back at what they had accomplished in the first six months of the fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner...
...drought has changed the situation materially and the quarterback will call for a new play," announced Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke last week. The quarterback was again Franklin Roosevelt, and he had just called a new play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...