Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Aubrey Williams, Deputy Administrator of WPA, told relief clients to "keep your friends in power." Fortnight ago David Lasser, able, ambitious, long-nosed little president of the Workers Alliance (which claims 1,000,000 unemployed as members, of whom 400,000 pay 10?-50? monthly dues and are mostly WPA workers) called on his followers to raise a $50,000 Workers Alliance campaign fund for the fall elections. Last week this proved too much even for Mr. Williams' easy-going boss, Harry Hopkins...
Aside from the obvious moral objection to diverting WPA's relief "wages" to political ends, the legal fact remained that the money is paid by the U. S. Treasury and that Section No. 208 of the U. S. Criminal Code specifically prohibits recipients of Federal funds from soliciting each other for political contributions...
Then President Roosevelt himself boomed in on the discussion: "I hope very much that people on relief will not contribute any money for the purpose of aiding any political party...
...been spent to relieve genuine distress, how has it been spent? . . . What has Mr. Roosevelt, who likes to talk so much about morality in ' government and politics, to say to this picture of jobless, hungry people eating out of garbage cans while his henchmen, in his name, use relief funds to buy their wav back into office...
Captain-elect Green will flank Healey, while Daughters will stand next to Booth. Give Daughters the pass-catching edge and Green the blocking edge; both are heady defensive players. Win Jameson, another veteran wing, should prove one capable relief; the other remains in doubt...