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...police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession...
...Welfare for insane asylum buildings at Milledgeville and other projects, turned up one with Robert & Co. which promised the firm 6% (some $300,000) for "architectural and engineering services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen baldly accused Chip Robert of "stealing" $45,000 of the taxpayers' money, snorted: "I am reliably informed that cities...
Eurith Dickinson Rivers to Washington, helped in "contacting Federal agencies to obtain funds." Asked if this was not "promotion" (for which PWA clients may not pay on pain of having their contracts voided), Chip responded: "Certainly not. That's organization...
...PWA officials announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
...Bugs" galore harassed the hurry-up ships built with PWA money, were still plaguing the Navy in 1936. For speed and efficiency in an essentially industrial enterprise, Franklin Roosevelt needed a man who believed in a Big Navy, who understood manufacturing, who also believed in the New Deal and who had no ingrained reverence for gold braid. All these qualities he found in Charles Edison...