Word: ccc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time you read this, it may be on its way out of business. The death of a small place like Calvin Coolidge College may seem to be a good move, but, as Daniel Webster used to say, There-Are-Those-Who-Love-It. CCC is actually the undergraduate division of its next-door neighbor, the Portia Law School. Portia is an interesting place. It was founded in 1908 to provide, as you may have guessed, legal education for women. In the mid-30's the school trustees decided to admit male students and to open an undergraduate division...
...physically on the Law School. For the Law School to meet the ABA's requirements, the school is going to be forced to retain the money and land now used by the college. Since accreditation time is coming up soon, the Trustees have quietly notified the college students that CCC will be gradually phased out of existence. Those who are currently enrolled will get their degrees but no effort to enroll future classes will be made...
...death occurred in 1935, as the President set course for reelection. During his first years in office, Roosevelt had performed a remarkable patch job on a sick economy. But the closing of the banks, the departure of the gold standard, the proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country to its rendezvous with destiny...
...scuffling was far from over. For the Senate had also attached to the CCC bill riders aimed at blocking an Administration economy plan for the prompt shutdown of 15 Veterans Administration hospitals and rest homes and 20 small Agriculture Department research centers. Among those opposing the President was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, fighting the closing of a VA hospital in his own Montana...
...idea-and the idealism-behind the Job Corps stems from the old CCC camps of the '30s. The kids will sign on for one-or two-year stints, move into rural "camps" (to be built in U.S.-owned parks or forests) or urban "centers" (mostly abandoned military barracks near cities). Forty-one sites in 21 states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September...