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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject (TIME, May 8), Franklin Roosevelt asked for $1,477,000,000 to carry an average of 2,000,000 workers on WPA (mostly manual labor) through the coming year. For PWA (heavy construction works) he asked nothing this time. In the weeks that have passed since that message, Mr. Roosevelt's hopes for an upturn in the capital goods industries have dwindled. Beside the picture of 11,000,000 idle workers has persisted a picture of billions of idle dollars. More & more public spending, in the absence of private investment, is known to be Mr. Roosevelt...
...several other agencies, into a new Federal Works Agency (effective July 1). Not the Starnes bill, but a PWA allotment of similar size out of the money it was going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery of items in WPA's proposed budget (the first ever submitted to Congress in itemized form) which could be shaved or excised; uneasiness about the efficiency of WPA's handling of large...
Craving guidance, octogenarian Governor Dickinson first imported from Charlotte two cronies: Dr. Henry Allen Moyer, his personal physician; Emerson R. Boyles, old-line political warhorse who had served under Governor Fitzgerald as his legal adviser. Dr. Moyer's duties include protecting frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have...
...Vetoed a bill which would have let a legislative committee continue its investigation of some nasty bridge-fund boodle. (Lawyer Boyles got the blame. Protested Mr. Dickinson to carpers: "Why, I didn't know that bill terminated the investigation. Judge Boyles told me to veto...
...spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...