Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, who loves a political fight, last week was in one up to his elbows. He was putting a squeeze on those gentlemen in Congress who wanted to cut down the Relief appropriation for the next five months from $875,000,000 to $725,000,000. Fortnight ago when the House passed the bill (397-to-16) with the lower figure there was some suspicion that the President had laid a political trap for Congressional economizers. Last week, whether or not he helped to lay the trap, he helped to squeeze its jaws shut...
...White House the President called Colorado's stocky little Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, banker-lawyer chairman of the Senate subcommittee which had charge of the Relief bill. "Little Alva," to whom the President gave "the silent treatment" when he ran for renomination last summer, may not be so brilliant as his late father, "Big Alva," who was Governor of Colorado for two terms, or so colorful as his Uncle Billy, who ranched in the San Luis Valley (whence came Jack Dempsey) and was Governor thrice. But his spine last week was stiff for economy...
...Clark ("Pink") Harrington when he turned over WPA to the new administrator last month, "but I'll be glad to help out should you ask me to.'' Last week Colonel Harrington wanted it clearly understood that Harry Hopkins had not "helped out" in his selection of Relief's No. 2 man, to replace Mr. Hopkins' lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner, who since 1933 has had charge of all Federal relief...
...five and one-half years, Howard Hunter administered in the Midwest the spending of about one-third of all Federal relief and work-relief appropriations. On his payrolls were 35 to 40% of all WPAsters. The drought of 1936 and the floods of 1937 were his to handle...
...economy advocates, led by Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo., had hoped to delay the vote until their numbers are bolstered by several absentees who favor the House-approved $725,000,000 relief bill and would give them the margin for victory...