Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First[-third] Session, Acting Under House Resolution 130, Directing the Committee on Appropriations of the House to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration as a Basis for Legislation, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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... mean , the rolls have been purged as far as you intend to purge them ? Colonel HARRINGTON . Yes , sir - oh , I do not mean that there will not be 1,000 or may be 2,000 more ; but in effect it is complete . PERSONNEL RECEIVING $ 2,000 OR ...
... mean , the rolls have been purged as far as you intend to purge them ? Colonel HARRINGTON . Yes , sir - oh , I do not mean that there will not be 1,000 or may be 2,000 more ; but in effect it is complete . PERSONNEL RECEIVING $ 2,000 OR ...
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... mean to say that in the brief time that you have had to work , and the large sums of money that you have disbursed and the vast clientele with which you have had to deal , it is not impos- sible that you have made some errors and that ...
... mean to say that in the brief time that you have had to work , and the large sums of money that you have disbursed and the vast clientele with which you have had to deal , it is not impos- sible that you have made some errors and that ...
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... mean a difference of 10 days between June 20 and June 30 , and that 10 days would mean the jobs of 760,000 people . We have no desire , nor have we ever asked the administrator to violate the laws of Congress . Mr. ROBERTS . Mr. Lasser ...
... mean a difference of 10 days between June 20 and June 30 , and that 10 days would mean the jobs of 760,000 people . We have no desire , nor have we ever asked the administrator to violate the laws of Congress . Mr. ROBERTS . Mr. Lasser ...
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... mean as much as we play them up to mean ? Mr. LASSER . There is no economic advantage , but there is a tre- mendous moral advantage in being able to have a job . Mr. WOODRUM . So far as being able to eat is concerned , and the ...
... mean as much as we play them up to mean ? Mr. LASSER . There is no economic advantage , but there is a tre- mendous moral advantage in being able to have a job . Mr. WOODRUM . So far as being able to eat is concerned , and the ...
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... mean all the units concerned ? Let me make another thing clear , so that there will not be any misunderstanding . Just as we nationally have a per capita , so the city organization has a per capita , and the locals , they fix the ...
... mean all the units concerned ? Let me make another thing clear , so that there will not be any misunderstanding . Just as we nationally have a per capita , so the city organization has a per capita , and the locals , they fix the ...
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