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Aubrey Willis Williams, National Youth Administrator, veteran defender of boondoggling, changed his tune about NYA. Said he: "Sewing rooms, arts & crafts, music, recreation projects, school lunches . . . have got to go. . . . We must get rid of every soft spot that smells." He asked his aides to get "very, very tough...
...employe who endorsed the NYA (also endorsed by Warden Lewis E. Lawes and a member of the Dies Committee...
...should be stopped; Wendell Willkie should get a war job; Dean Landis was the wrong man to head the Office of Civilian Defense; the war debt would be terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place; CCC and NYA should be abandoned; there should be no "political conduct of this war." In World War I, Millard Tydings was a good & able soldier. Oklahoma's Josh Lee, a 100% spellbinding New Dealer, cracked: ". . . General Tydings . . . the greatest advocate I have heard so far of trying to conduct...
...work for NYA...
...more CCC, no more non-defense activities for NYA. (The President two months ago suggested that Congress combine CCC and NYA for economy's sake, got no action...