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Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February. Without soliciting another application for loans or gifts Administrator Ickes declared he could distribute a second three billion from the surplus supply of pleas already in his office. Observing the number of jobs made by public works, the Senate was not at all sure that this was the most practical...
...extend the present temporary plan of bank deposit guarantee for another year-thereby putting off the more drastic "permanent" guarantee; 4) the Stock Exchange regulation bill, with teeth; 5) a bill to appropriate $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for relief and PWA expenses until the next Congress meets. Picked for probable sacrifice: Commodity exchange regulation bill; communications commission bill; permanent airmail bill; Wagner Labor bill. Picked for defeat: The silver purchase bill in its present form, the McLeod bill (see p. 14) and similar measures. To be sure of defeating the silver bill the President placed...
...worked on the New York Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just before joining the technical review board of PWA, he had finished planting a nut farm in New Jersey. Laurence Todd is known to Washington newspapermen as a Social Registerite, has served for 14 years as Washington correspondent for Federated (labor) Press. He has recently become U. S. representative for Tass, official Soviet newsgathering organization...
Reason No. 2 for the slow outlay is that PWA has spent only $803,000,000 of the $3,300,000,000 appropriated. The rest of the expenditure is postponed, but for the time being delay eases the strain on government finances...
...Lung Block" near Alfred Emanuel Smith's birthplace on the Lower East Side, 360 of the 386 evicted families promptly settled down in squalor within two blocks of their old homes. If whole areas are reclaimed, slumdwellers swarm into whole new areas, blighting them like locusts. Nevertheless, the PWA has earmarked $25,000,000 for Manhattan slum-clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted...