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When Wilson Wyatt and the Veterans Emergency Housing Program were thrown out in December, it was proclaimed that now something could be done to stimulate building, that now that "these bureaucratic restrictions" were in the federal ash-can, private enterprise would get to work and provide the necessary housing. Even the President had said in his opening message to Congress that one million homes would be built this year, as matters then stood...
Frontal Attack. In Spartanburg, R. C. Wyatt, 79, sore because Waitress Bessie Meheles gave him the cold shoulder, planted dynamite near the restaurant where she worked, blasted off its front...
...A.D.A. was organized early this month by prominent New Dealers Leon Henderson, Wilson Wyatt, and Chester Bowles for the purpose of uniting non-communist left-wingers. The student division is based on the United States Student Assembly, which incorporated itself into the A.D.A. and is now called Students for Democratic Action...
...progressive scene there are new two organizations seeking the so-called "grass roots"--the Progressive Citizens of America, sponsored by such liberals as Henry A. Wallace and Fiorello H. LaGuardia; and Americans for Democratic Action, which has in its camp Mrs. Roosevelt's Harold Ickes, Chester Bowles, and Wilson Wyatt...
...auto industry had dreamed of making 6,000,000 cars and trucks; it made only 3,000,000. Of the 1,200,000 houses blueprinted under Wilson Wyatt's program, the U.S. finished only about 700,000. And even the overall glitter of profits proved fool's gold in many an industry. Example: Westinghouse made more peacetime goods than ever-and had an operating loss of $50,000,000, twice as much as during the three worst years of the depression...