Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FEDERAL FUNDS for the completion of 465 campus building projects have been allotted by the Works Progress Administration after approval by President Roosevelt and assistant WPA administrator Aubrey Williams. The federal government is providing $6,120,414 for these projects, while the institutions are providing $1,343,505. Exactly 14,935 workers (some of whom are students) are being given employment on these projects, which will provide 68,778 man years of labor when completed. Mr. Williams is also administrator of the National Youth Administration which is giving 118,889 under-graduates employment as $15 per month...
...siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...
...liquidated. Whether he had made equally good on his job promise could not be told until last-minute reports were in and tallied. But in Atlanta President Roosevelt reported with "a certain satisfaction" that 3,125,000 persons were usefully at work on Nov. 27. In Washington, Acting FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams chimed assurance that all 3,500,000 employables would have relief jobs by the night...
...Washington one day last week New Jersey's Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton sat down at his House desk, began ruffling through the mail piled up during his vacation. Opening a letter from the White House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal...
...Washington last week Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams anxiously announced that eleven Army engineers were in the field, would shortly report on ways to speed up relief construction. Along with this promise to do better, relief officials also let it be known that the lag in relief progress was not all their fault. Tactfully they pointed out that Comptroller General McCarl had released to date only $585,000,000 for $1,900,000,000 worth of WPA projects approved by President Roosevelt...