Also last week the Government’s latest relief agency, Civil Works Administration, whelped with the aid of a $400,000,000 grant from the public works fund, was distributing its pay checks, thus ...

ON November 9, 1933, the Civil Works Administration was created by order of the President for the purpose of ‘increasing employment quickly.’ The sum of $400,000,000 was taken from the Public ...

“The inauguration of the civil works program and its speedy getting into action is, to our minds, one of the wisest moves the administration has yet made,” the paper wrote on Nov. 28, 1933.