Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional critics of WPA needed a shining target to shoot at in the coming session, Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard...
When this fighting phrase was flashed across the land, Mr. Williams expostulated that by "class warfare" he means such accomplished facts as collective bargaining, "the clash of employe and employer, the clash of one industrial group against another. . . . There are other forms than class warfare of solving these problems, but realistically, it may not be possible to avoid...
Loose-tongued Mr. Williams' chief was also on the defensive in the newspapers last week. To the New York Times Harry Hopkins wrote a letter denying that he ever said, as reported by Timesman Arthur Krock and others: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" (TIME, Nov. 21). Timesman Krock replied: "Among those who heard it is a most reputable citizen of New York and, in lighter hours, a playmate of Mr. Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that...
Anyone who challenges the accuracy of the Times's Krock, who last spring won a Pulitzer Prize for an interview with Franklin Roosevelt, has indeed made a challenge, but Mr. Hopkins wrote again to the Times, again disowning the quotation. This time Mr. Krock replied: "I saw him [Mr. Hopkins] on ... the very day of the publication to which he now so violently objects, and he said nothing about it at all. The friend who quoted Mr. Hopkins as substantially repeated is of excellent repute and not at all hard of hearing. ... I learned his identity in confidence...
...Commonwealth & Southern Corp. A shaggy lawyer with a sharp tongue, Wendell Willkie has not only shepherded his colleagues through their court battles but has maintained a spectacular standing offer to sell vast C. & S. outright to the Government before it is destroyed piecemeal. Last week Mr. Willkie was again yanked to Washington by a House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors...