Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy, eminently useful citizen, noted for his personal integrity, his whole-souled devotion to his job and to his chief Harry Hopkins. Last week it became Aubrey Williams' duty to see that other U. S. youngsters should not have to follow his own rocky road to success...
Newshawks at the White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
...years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark and Manhattan he growled...
Today in New York City (pop. 6,930,000) live 1,222,331 men, women & children on public bounty, half of which comes from the Federal Government. Of the four-billion-dollar Federal work relief fund, this greatest single pool of public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...