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Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head and laughed. He was off again for fun, and at a good clip. Over the Pennsylvania's newly (PWA) electrified tracks he made the old five-hour trip from Washington to Manhattan in 3 hours and 53 minutes. Before dinner time that night he descended from his train at Beacon, Mass, and motored into Cambridge...
...Before the Post Offices and Post Roads Committee could act on his request for a Farley investigation he offered another resolution ordering Secretary Ickes to send to the Senate any reports by his investigators about attempts by Mr. Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points; Mr. Ickes' investigators have been tireless in investigating PWA bids. It was calculated not only to find scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked down...
James A. Farley, sunning himself on Florida's beaches, promptly gave up heliotherapy and headed for Washington. Harold Ickes, looking most uncomfortable, paid a prolonged call at the White House. Afterward he announced to the Press: "There has been no investigation made of Farley as a person. . . . PWA reserves a right to investigate any project financed with its funds. Transactions involving [Farley's] firms may have been investigated. ... If they have, the findings will be turned over to the Senate...
...seems to me," ventured Senator Yandenberg, "that when Bragg and Smith, who were stock speculators and nothing else, came to you with something substantial, that in order to interest you they must have given some assurance that there was going to be some naval business and some PWA money...
...accused the PWA of lowering the purchasing power of the nation and being too slow for effective relief. Nor was he more optimistic concerning the new public works program. "At best" he said. "It is a dubious experiment. Many cities cannot and are not willing to carry the entire burden of the new program, and the $12.50 weekly alloted to each family is little better than a dole...