"This is your show now," said Harry Hopkins to Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington when he turned over WPA to the new administrator last month, "but I'll be glad to help out should you ask me to.'' Last week Colonel Harrington wanted it clearly understood that Harry Hopkins had not "helped out" in his selection of Relief's No. 2 man, to replace Mr. Hopkins' lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner, who since 1933 has had charge of all Federal relief in...
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