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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... political activities on the part of persons both within and without the Works Progress Administration . An investigation should be made to determine the manner in which the Works Progress Administration is carrying out these provisions ...
... political activities on the part of persons both within and without the Works Progress Administration . An investigation should be made to determine the manner in which the Works Progress Administration is carrying out these provisions ...
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... political activities result from the fact that the entire life and welfare of those we represent depend upon the action of political authorities . Naturally , we try to influence the ac- tion of these authorities by convincing them that ...
... political activities result from the fact that the entire life and welfare of those we represent depend upon the action of political authorities . Naturally , we try to influence the ac- tion of these authorities by convincing them that ...
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... politics allegedly in it now would be as a molehill to the mountain of political controls . that would operate then . To abandon a Federal works program is a serious step toward abandoning a works program itself , and a large step ...
... politics allegedly in it now would be as a molehill to the mountain of political controls . that would operate then . To abandon a Federal works program is a serious step toward abandoning a works program itself , and a large step ...
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... political coercion , corruption , or abuse , will depend in many cases upon the workers . They know what is going on ; they will protect the program against abuses if they have a conviction about it and freedom from fear . It is a ...
... political coercion , corruption , or abuse , will depend in many cases upon the workers . They know what is going on ; they will protect the program against abuses if they have a conviction about it and freedom from fear . It is a ...
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... political pull and for the political influence they can wield . ( b ) That supervisors have no economic need of their jobs - no interest in the program beyond the wages and power over the men . ( c ) That supervisors are incompetent ...
... political pull and for the political influence they can wield . ( b ) That supervisors have no economic need of their jobs - no interest in the program beyond the wages and power over the men . ( c ) That supervisors are incompetent ...
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