Word: wp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till...
...Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair of tomcats over projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April 8, et seq.). As to why the President wanted these belligerents along on the section of his journey supposedly...