Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more CCC, no more non-defense activities for NYA. (The President two months ago suggested that Congress combine CCC and NYA for economy's sake, got no action...
...effort. We insist that labor's legitimate rights to organize freely, to bargain collectively, and to strike, be protected. And we strongly favor voluntary and impartial mediation in defense labor disputes. We favor maintenance and increase of educational budgets and social services like Federal Housing, the NYA and the CCC...
...just a shade above the average U.S. sailor in height and weight. Soldier Short got through the second year of high school; Sailor Blake got his diploma. A onetime filling-station manager, Short left his job when drafted; Blake quit a berth as assistant civil engineer in a CCC camp to make the Navy his career. Since he won his title, Soldier Short has been promoted from private to corporal; Sailor Blake has the same rank he had when he became typical: boat swain's mate, second class...
Rather than yielding to penny-pinching, pound-wasting budget balancers who would throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with...
...From aids to youth (CCC...