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...weeks I tortured my investigators by refusing to confess!" sneered the Monkey, thus openly hinting third-degree methods by the Ogpu - and yet Karl Ra dek got away with all his impudence while 13 others got Death...
...Transferring 250,000 drought relief cases to the Resettlement Administration. This is a half-saving since WPA paid them about $40 and RA can pay them only about $20 a month. However RA has only $14,000,000 of its $85,000,000 appropriation left, will also need a new appropriation...
...prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress and to launch a new plan for lending $50,000,000 a year to help tenant farmers buy their homes, Dr. Tugwell hoped to get RA transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Only flaw in the plan was that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace did not want to take the responsibility of turning Dreamer Tugwell loose with so much money...
...least ten years buying farms which would be turned over to upstanding tenant farmers, including Southern sharecroppers, with 40 years to pay. His proposal would be presented, explained polite Dr. Tugwell, only if Congress asked him for it. But he felt sure it would. Already, he revealed, RA had taken options on 1,000 good Southern farms as a starter...
Last week Democratic Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made his big 1936 bid for the farm vote. In addition to such boons as AAA, FCA, RA which he has in the past three years offered Agriculture, in a swift play from Hyde Park he upped this already respectable ante. He appointed a committee headed by Rural Electrification's Morris L. Cooke to figure out a long term anti-drought program. He appointed another committee headed by Secretary Wallace to draw up plans for some form of crop insurance on at least one or two major crops. He wrote to the Senate...