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...public has been the Treasury's tried & true Secret Service, which tracks down counterfeiters, guards the person of the President. The Secret Service's jealousy knew no bounds when it was lately rumored that all U. S. spy divisions, including those of the PWA, WPA, FHA, SEC. would be consolidated under Director Hoover's direction...
...Editorial Writer Geoffrey Parsons of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Along the route the President complained that Vermont and New Hampshire had not done the upstream reforestation to prevent floods which they should have, that only 51% of Vermont's and 35% of New Hampshire's PWA labor had been taken from the relief rolls. He declared the Federal Government would hereafter be "hardboiled"' in advancing its 45% of the cost of PWA projects...
...polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project not only in his home state but in the whole East. Said he in a skillful, unpretentious little speech...
Artist Johnson started the Academy mural as a PWA job in December 1933, moved to West Point with two assistants in April 1935. Total cost: about $4,000, an astonishingly small sum for so large a work. Major General William Durward Connor, Superintendent at West Point, gave the artists plenty of advice on military matters, successfully requested that Napoleon be painted standing so that Wellington did not overshadow him. Like their commander, the cadets made numerous suggestions, once left for Artist Johnson this note...
...year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...