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...food, sell a surplus. For house & garden they will pay the Government $15-$20 a month for 20 years, payments to begin two years after occupancy. To construct and equip a factory in Reedsville to make furniture and other things for the Post Office Department $525,000 of PWA funds were allotted last October by Secretary Ickes. Construction of the building will provide some 2.000 man-months of labor for Homesteaders, and on completion the plant will give permanent employment to some 150.* Eventually the Government's No. 1 social laboratory will have a library, a lake, a pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Promised Land | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials to solicit from Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of Packard Motor Car Co., $50,000-$30,000 for the Democratic campaign deficit and $20,000 to lobby for PWA funds in Washington; other Abbott friends and appointees had "sold" postmasterships at $100 a head, had collected money to "assist" Michigan bankers to get the Government's deposit guarantee. In a three hour conference with Secretary Morgenthau, Collector Abbott denied having authorized anyone to solicit political funds. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Collector & Collections | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Make an emergency appropriation of $1,322,000,000 which the Administration needs for relief and PWA work before the next Congress convenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work To Do | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Although these are virtually all whom the American Hebrew considers worthy of notice, there are still others, most of them young, and in nominally unimportant positions. Example: Benjamin Victor Cohen, 40, a Brain Trust attorney who is PWA's assistant general counsel. He had a large hand in drafting the Stock Exchange Control Bill and, contrary to all rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jobs & Jews | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Also to be let shortly are contracts for 30 new attack planes. To pay for its new craft the Air Corps will use PWA funds and Congressional appropriations. Call for bids came from Assistant Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, who last week was absolved of all guilt in connection with Army aircraft purchases by a House Military Affairs sub-committee which investigated Air Corps procurement methods. The subcommittee, in its report, charged Air Corps Chief Benjamin D. ("Benny") Foulois with having acted "in clear violation of the law" by favoring negotiated contracts instead of competitive bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Death & Destruction | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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