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Harry Hopkins, 1890-1946
Of those joining President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration in 1933, Harry Hopkins was easily the most adventuresome in devising ways to alleviate the Great Depression. This slender dynamo of a man first served as FDR's chief of a massive emergency relief for the unemployed. By 1935 he was heading the Works Progress Administration, charged with putting the nation's unemployed to work on government-funded projects. Critics accused him of careless waste. Hopkins, however, never wavered in his commitment to easing the Depression, claiming that his detractors were simply "too . . . dumb to understand" the importance of his work.
Reuben Nakian, 1934 |