Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long legislator, "is a declaration of war against the United States...
...think," growled the PWAdministrator, "that Senator Long is going to dictate to us on how we are going to administer public works in Louisiana. . . . Mr. Long by the action of his Legislature will keep a lot of men out of work by making it impossible for PWA to make loans or grants. Apparently the Senator favors sharing wealth but not sharing work. Perhaps the Senator knows how to produce wealth without work and perhaps we'll have a profound economic and political theory announced after the Longislature has been in session some time...
Returned Secretary Ickes: "The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect." Then, tired of talk, the PWAdministrator scratched $648,000 for Louisiana off his PWA loan & grant list...
Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance, the NRA Bituminous Coal Code (TIME, March 11). Last week Judge Dawson struck his third blow by ruling AAA's Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act unconstitutional...
...track wire service, had accepted party funds from a man about to be tried for using the mails to defraud, had intervened to save a Kansas City gangster and a banking group, which included Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis and his brother, from Federal prosecution, had personally profited from PWA contracts. Just after Senator Long's running fight with Senator Robinson in the Senate last week, the Post Offices & Post Roads Committee quietly announced that it found insufficient evidence for an investigation of the Postmaster General...