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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The right of works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins or any other government official to express his views on political contests in a state of which he is a native, was strongly defended by President Roosevelt today. Striking out at newspaper and Congressional criticism that Hopkins sought to "play politics with human misery" when he stated his preferences for Rep. Otha D. Wearin, young New Dealer, to Son, Guy M. Gillette in Iowa's Democratic senatorial primary race, the Chief Executive described the agitation as a great deal of smoke...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...told them that the cost of social pioneer ventures like Arthurdale "we justifiably charge off as the inevitable cost of all progress."* A better investment for taxpayers he could not conceive than "able, alert, competent and up-to-date people." And now, "How should taxes be paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Attack at Arthurdale | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Montana's bitter, nasal Wheeler announced he had just learned that Harry Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, dispenser of one-half of the billions in the Lend-Spend bill, had announced his choice for Senator in Iowa's impending primary election. Said Mr. Wheeler: "I was shocked. . . . Members of the Senate, and myself, frequently have denounced corporations which place slips in the pay envelopes saying, 'You should vote for such & such a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

While the latest comers on the Harvard battlefield did their fulminating, the local committee of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy quietly told the story of its progress towards a second mercy cart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insurgent Spain May Receive Ambulance in New Alms Plan | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

From 2 until 6 o'clock flights were in progress in the three groups of models; gliders, hand launched; fuselage ships, hand launched, and fuselage ships, launched from the ground under their own power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Model Airplanes Sail Through Breeze While Mob of Witnesses Packs Field | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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