Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in...
THE CONGRESS: Sheppard Report
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