All that was left of Reconstruction Finance Corp. filed into its board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy,
Democrats all. The three empty chairs were silent reminders of the fact that President Roosevelt had not yet gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election...
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