Early last week Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins was allotted $142,245,875 to hire 169,000 relief workers in New York City, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana and the District of Columbia. Same day, the House clipped President Roosevelt's so-called "death sentence" out of the Utilities Bill.
To newshawks who trooped into the White House two days later for the President's regular mid-week press conference, the progress of work relief was of small interest. What they and the nation wanted to know was what President Roosevelt was going to do about...
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