The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-22

 formation to which they att; that the Texas legislatures vote against Rcosevelt's judiciary pro- posals was engineered by Fred H. Stinchfield, president of the American Bar association.
 What they consider particularly significant is the fact that Stinch- field is on the advisory board of the Liberty League.
 They recall that Roosevelt some any constitutional amendment to time ago had information that reform the court would be blocked in the state legislatures by the Liberty league.
 High links
 Stanley High, organizer of Rooseyelt,s Good Neighbor League who was recently rebuked by the White House, also experienced an embarrassing moment on Inaugu- ration day.
 High had entered a local radio studio to broadcast a color" de- scription of the oath-taking cere- mony at the Capitol. Under one arm he clasped a Bibie--obviousIy Gideon such as are found in all hotel rooms.
 Looks like you'd swiped that from your hotel" someone chaffed Dr. High.
 High had to admit that he had. In Bad
 The patronage grabbers on Capitol Hill are up to their old tricks again. sr H
 That is the inside story behind the mysterious delay in confirm ing John c. Winant's reappoint- ment as chairman of the social security board. Winant has, the full support of the president. Yet, when his name was taken up by the senate finance committee, Senator Pat Harrison chairman of the committee, asked that the name be held up. re," t'e'
 Pat gave no explanation for his action, and his colleagues asked for none. They didn't have to. They knew what smouldering fires lay behind Pats smoke,
 The social security board in general and Winant, 8 republican, in particular are in bad with certain potent congressional dem ocrats. The latter are peeved be- cause the board won't play ball with them in dishing out jobs. Hoover Hold Overs
 The politicos also, claim that the boards large staff is loaded with republicans, including many one-time Hoover lieutenants in the commerce department.
 These were blanketed into the civil service by Hoover before he left office, and now have perma- nent government status. Many of them were on the NRA payroll, later transferring to the social security board when the Supreme Court axed the Blue Eagle.
 NOTE: If the presidents gov-' ernment reorganization plan goes through thousands of democratic offlce-holders also will be blank eted into the Civil Service as permanent employees. .1ep Other Complaints
 Not all of the social security boards critics are on Capitol Hill. It also has several in certain ad- ministration quarters, because of the boards quiet practice of "raiding" other agencies of their best workers. r .oa.
 Both the census bureau and the war department have lost top notch employees. to the social security board, and have gone so far as to notify the board that if it didn't keep hands off their staffs they would complain to the president.
 The board, however, Is in a tough spot. Confronted with the tremendous clerical task of regis tering 26,000,00 workers, it is en- countering great difficulty in securing skilled assistants.
 Ouch!
 Some of the boys in the house were indulging in a bit of partisan wrangling over governmental ex- penditures. Snapped Minnesota's Farmer -Laborite Dewey w. John son: We are not worried about balancing the budget"
 Queried Charles l.. Clifford, (r., Mass.): "Who is 'we'?"
 Replied Johnson: "Just the common people, not the repub- 1icans." "" WPA Boy
 One night during flood control work along the Mississippi, a bunch of COG workers, WPA men and army engineers were going ashore for the night near Tiptonville, Tenn, when they heard the usual cry
 "Hey you WPA boys. get yourselves down this way if you want a place to sleep."
 The WPA gang started laugh ing. We have one WPA boy in this gang" one of them yelled back"
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