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Temporarily appointed Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works was Col. Donald Hubbard Sawyer. Administrator Sawyer was born in Pulaski, Ill. 53 years ago. A civil engineer since 1902, he built cantonments during the War. In 1923 he came to Washington as secretary for the Associated General Contractors of America. For the past two years he has been director of the obscure Employment Stabilization Board, relic of the Hoover...
...work with Administrator Sawyer, the President set up a Special Board for Public Works composed of Secretaries of Interior, War, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, the Attorney General, the Director of the Budget and Col. George R. Spalding, an Army river & harbor engineer who was embarrassed when the Press jumped the gun, reported he would get Col. Sawyer...
...executive order creating his office did not empower Administrator Sawyer to spend all the $3,300,000,000 authorized by Congress for public works, at an estimated ratio of a million jobs per billion dollars. His orders were strict. He was given 30 days to distribute $400,000,000 for highway building projects which could be started immediately. President Roosevelt promised to put 1,000,000 men to work by autumn...
ERNEST WALKER SAWYER...
...with peace officers took place. One convict group marched into the Bank of Chelsea (Okla.), ran out with $2,500 in cash under a barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer, was captured two days later at Chickasha after a gun fight during which a man he had kidnapped and was using as a shield was seriously wounded. It was guessed that the rest had holed in among the ravines and abandoned lead and zinc mines of the Ozark Plateau, which...