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Meantime, WPA, PWA, Congress and the U. S. Department of Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...
Senator Jimmy Byrnes last week wrote Franklin Roosevelt a note asking how he felt about the $125,000,000 which the House took out of WPA's new money for 1940 and allotted to PWA for heavy construction (TIME, June 26). When Jimmy Byrnes got his answer, it took his breath away...
...magical hat the long-awaited Great White Rabbit of 1939. It was a revolving, self-liquidating rabbit and Mr. Roosevelt put its life at a maximum seven years, its first-year size at $870,000,000, ultimate size $3,860,000,000. Rather than rob WPA to pay PWA said he, let Congress empower the following agencies to lend (NOT spend) the following sums on the following projects, which would pay for themselves in the end, interest payments meantime causing the funds to revolve...
...subject calling for action before June 30, when WPA's appropriations would run out. Last fortnight the House, with fair speed, passed a measure granting as much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other...
...PWA was limited to projects noncompetitive with private enterprise. That made Secretary Ickes yelp, because it ruled out a lot of power projects...