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Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends...
Debaters Stanley Epstein '39 and Phil C. Neal '40 defeated Lucy O. Sheppard and Dorothy Tarzer of Wellesley yesterday, Harvard affirming that America should maintain a policy of independent action in European affairs...
Thick clouds of smoke have arisen all summer and fall from WTActivities in such important political vineyards as Kentucky, Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. So far the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, headed by Texas' mild-spoken old Senator Morris Sheppard, has found no fire beneath the fumes though it has kept WPA's nimble Harry Hopkins on the jump answering questions...
Last week not Senator Sheppard's Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
...father of three children, is like Reader's Digest. It condenses from grownups' newspapers and magazines articles that are believed to be particularly interesting to youth. Youth Today also will pick a boy and a girl of the month. Girl of the Month for October: Alma Sheppard, 12, of Hanover, Pa., who drove her father's trotter to three world's harness racing records. Boy of the Month: Edward Higgins, 11, of Pueblo, Colo. Born without arms, Edward Higgins can sew on buttons with his toes, in a competition against normal boys won a national award...