RELIEF: Fraud v. Fraud

The deadliest ammunition which Republicans have yet received for sniping at Democrats with charges that Relief is being used for the meanest kind of political purposes has been furnished them by West Virginia's Democratic Senator Rush Dew Holt. When that brash young politician uprose in the Senate last month and charged that the Works Progress Administration in his State was rotten with politics, impartial observers explained this astonishing Democratic outburst as a clear case of sour grapes.

His colleague and onetime ally, West Virginia's senior Senator Matthew Mansfield Neely, had apparently grabbed off all...

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