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Work after seven months. Smith added as his assistant John W. Whitten, and engaged the services of Dutton Ferguson and Edward Lawson, Jr., to handle press relations. When the Works Progress Administration [WPA] was organized, it was placed under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and Smith became the top dog in the whole relief effort, and thus began the mass appointments of the "petty bourgeoisie."

James Atkins became a specialist in Negro Adult Education; T. Arnold Hill, left the National Rrban League as industrial relations secretary, to become a consultant on white collar workers. Sterling Brown left his professorial post at Howard University to become senior writer of Negro material for the Federal Writer's Project. Other government agencies set up by the President, with the approval of Congress, and designed to put people back to work in creative activity, followed the example set by the

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