Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week the Federal Housing Administration had the biggest day of its career, insuring $750,000 in modernization loans, $1,260,000 in mortgages. FHAdministrator James Andrew Moffett called at the White House to present the good news in person, report on FHA's accomplishments to date: $351,000,000 worth of building business generated, 750,000 jobs created. His report made, Administrator Moffett handed President Roosevelt his resignation, effective in a fortnight...
...could be heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge that he is a liar, cheat and fraud...
...allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy of extending its New Deal to Indians. Simultaneously the 100-year war between the Seminoles and the U. S., begun by the raw deal of that first modern Democrat, President Andrew Jackson, was to be brought to a peaceful conclusion...
Because she has kept up for 15 years the U. S. and Scottish philanthropies of her late husband and because she customarily spends her summers at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands, the Senators of St. Andrews University voted to confer an honorary Ll.D. on Manhattan's venerable Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...
...Personnel) is Brigadier General Andrew Moses, field artilleryman and expert on materiel. Brigadier General Harry Knight, who entered the Army from the New York militia during the Spanish-American War, is G-2 (Intelligence). G-3 (Operations & Training) is Brigadier General John H. Hughes, who got out of West Point in 1897, just in time to be wounded in Cuba. Brigadier General Charles Sherman Lincoln, G-4 (Supply), started out to be a farmer by graduating from the Iowa State College of Agriculture, enlisted in the ranks in 1895, won his commission...