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OCR Page 1 of 67Farley, Federal Fall Guy.
By John Boettiger.
Chicago Sunday Tribune
June 10, 1934.
Washington, D.C.-
A new temple in the forum of the New Deal rises expensively in
Pennsylvania Avenue, and within its stone walls are encrusted a master's
quarters which set to shame the headquarters of the other masters of
Washington's bureaucracy.
It is not thst the other masters have simple and democratic of-
fices, but that this new one is grand beyond compare.
The reception room wherein American subjects will wait before
entering the master's presence is a massive hall of carved walnut
panels and beams and parqueted floors. Great windows look out upon
parapets which hide the commonalty on the streets below. Beyond the
great hell is a smaller one, in which the secretaries and flunkies
of the master will sit in protective array, and past that barrier
is the inner sanctum. This room also is carved in rich walnut. At
either end of the spacious chamber - it would seem irreverent to call
it an office - is a wood-burning fireplace, so that the master may
be cheered in the bluster of winter by a crackling of blazing logs
on open hearths. In the summer iced and washed air will keep the
master cool while the subjects elsewhere in the capital, even in the
halls of Congress, will perspire and gasp for breath in the humid
atmosphere. The windows of the inner sanctim look out upon a court-
yard, where a fountain will be sending esthetic shafts of water into
the air, and when the landscapers have completed their task the master
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