The question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or...
POLITICAL NOTES: Records on Relief
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