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...from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt's onetime law partner). Finally he declared the whole New Deal...
Last fortnight Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who is also PWAdministrator and Petroleum Administrator, issued an order to the effect that no man could serve both as a city official and as an administrator of a PWA project within that city. If he tried to, PWA would shut off funds for the project involved. Immediately obvious was it that the PWAdministrator could have saved time by announcing that the Triborough Bridge Authority would get no more Federal money until Robert Moses resigned from it or from his job as City Park Commissioner. Apparently no one else in the land...
...State's Power Authority. A topnotch consulting engineer and one-time president of the Taylor ("Scientific Management") Society, Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an old hand at broad-gauge planning through service on the War Industries Board and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care. As members of PWA's Mississippi Valley Committee he and his eight colleagues had the inspiration of a President to whom vast schemes of national betterment are political meat & drink. Exalting, too, was their vast field of operations-sweeping from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains, from the pine forests of Minnesota...
...adviser to arrive was Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Direct relief was not his problem, but more & more the Administration has come to think of relief in terms of stimulating the construction industry. He went to Warm Springs on the heels of a fight with Secretary Ickes over whether PWA's desire to build low-cost housing with Government money would scare private capital from entering Mr. Moffett's housing scheme (TIME...
...stomped out of the White House. Three-quarters of an hour later the President's second assistant secretary, Stephen T. Early, issued a statement signed with their names. Drawing a nice distinction between the Housing Administration, which aims to help people "who still have some borrowing power" and PWA which aims to help people who "could not fall into the category of those who are being helped by the Housing Administration," the statement made out that Messrs. Ickes and Moffett had no differences, that a vicious Press had misconstrued their fighting words...