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¶ To keep the Civilian Conservation Corps on its toes President Roosevelt last week approved a bonus system for workers-in-the-woods. Instead of the regular $30 per month (two-thirds or more of which is sent home to dependents) the best 5% in each company are to get...
Having been in office three months, the Roosevelt Administration last week blundered into what Republicans tried to whip up as its first "scandal." At the demand of Wyoming's Republican Carey the Senate Military Affairs Committee began to investigate the Civilian Conservation Corps' purchase of toilet kits for...
To whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol...
By executive order he provided for the enlistment of 25,000 veterans in the Civilian Conservation Corps to work in the woods at $1 per day and keep. But work seemed the last thing the bonuseers lolling about Fort Hunt wanted.
Good evening, my friends. Millions of U. S. citizens edged closer to their radios last Sunday as they heard this familiar greeting from the President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country...