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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor of Charleston then, and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...
...condemnation law, behind which landowners in the to-be-flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...
...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's sorcery against this old nightmare, as always before. Last week, therefore, observers were not surprised to see his Secretary of the Interior, "Honest Harold" Ickes.- master of PWA, appear on Capitol Hill before the Relief bill...
...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 projects and about its executive set-up (last...
Lest advocates of WPA, most of whose money goes straight into workers' pockets, think that PWA is gravy only for contractors and material supply men, Harold Ickes took occasion to mention, in a public letter to Franklin Roosevelt last week, that in six years the workmen employed on PWA projects pocketed $1,205,452,000 in wages...