Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubled. At present rates, it will rise another 36% by 1965. The island's sugar-based economy gives it an increasingly unfavorable trade balance with the U.S. (last year's: $140 million). U.S. expenditures for relief and public works have made Puerto Rico a vast and continuing WPA project...
...Deal-discouraged in Louisiana by Huey-was now admitted and allowed to pour in fresh millions in WPA funds. There were big cars, parties, and champagne for all. Then the bubble blew up. Dr. James Monroe Smith, president of L.S.U., vanished one day with his party-loving wife, Thelma. The Doc had been speculating in millions of bushels of wheat and had invented a unique system of financing. Whenever his broker called for more collateral, he merely ordered the printing of more L.S.U. bonds. He was discovered in Canada, brought home, and clapped into jail...
...University of California's Max Radin, 68, law teacher, Brandeisian philosopher and historian of the law, biographer of Marcus Brutus, indefatigable author of legal books and articles (a WPA project was once assigned to catalogue them all). A first-name friend of U.S. Supreme Court justices, Radin was nominated to the California Supreme Court in 1940, but the commission on judges turned him down (he had spoken out for Tom Mooney and Sacco & Vanzetti...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...
...career 15 years ago in the legal department of Henry Wallace's AAA. Wallace had to bounce him and some 20 other AAA employees because too many people complained that the group was trying to change the world too fast. Pressman bobbed up again in Harry Hopkins' WPA, then in Rexford Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Administration. In 1936 John Lewis, then playing footie with the leftists in labor, made him counsel of the rebel C.I.O...