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What Virginia's handsome Representative Clifton Woodrum called "the best job Congress has done this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote $250,000,000 for parity payments into the farm bill, in return for rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago...
That vote made Virginia's Woodrum, House champion of Economy, sure of another triumph. As Georgia's irascible Representative Edward E. Cox put it, the country Congressmen would cut the city men's throats...
...House, Virginia's Clifton Woodrum was chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which handled the last several WPA bills. He was one of those who cut $150,000,000 from the deficiency bill...
...Virginia's fleshy Clifton Alexander Woodrum, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge, the Representatives curtly dismissed an appropriation of $1,050,000,000 suggested by the Workers Alliance, of $1,000,000,000 by C. I. O., of $915,000,000 by Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, representing the U. S. Conference of Mayors. Without even taking a record vote on the President's figure, they lopped off $150,000,000, set their own figure...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...