ABSTRACT
Louis McHenry Howe ranged widely and freely throughout the whole Administration, but his own deep enthusiasm went to three pet projects he shared with Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt—the Civilian Conservation Corps, the anti-crime crusade, and the Subsistence Home Experiment. Roosevelt's enthusiasm was boundless after seeing for herself the desperate, grimy, hungry people of the West Virginia coal-mining towns. And Louis, already swamped with C.C.C. and dabbling in diplomacy, found himself caught up in the heady crusade. The crusade begun in the Crime Commission carried over to Louis's White House office. The massive correspondence provided one barometer of public opinion, but Louis was never happy without the clipping service on which he had relied so heavily since 1906. "Casey" issued a regular Press Intelligence Bulletin with summaries and excerpts culled from hundreds of small-town and city papers throughout the country.
