None had kept track of its serial number, but last week another brand new New Deal notion rolled smartly off the line of the hustling Washington plant of Roosevelt & Co. Last to be turned out in 1935, the idea was probably as advanced as any that will be produced in 1936.
Instead of having some 108 different arrangements of Federal regions and headquarters throughout the Union, reasoned the National Resources Committee (which includes five Cabineteers and Harry Hopkins), why not establish ten or twelve "Little Washingtons" or Federal subcapitals?
Declared the Committee report:...
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