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...doing he defied influential Moslems who believe that all education must be based on the Koran. But Hassan thinks that advancement is where you find it. He currently gets $30 million a year from the U.S., has accepted an American suggestion to set up a kind of CCC to cope partially with Morocco's 1,000,000 unemployed...
...television ever takes hold, the letters ABC, NBC and CBS may seem about as dated as OWI, CCC and SPQR...
After graduating from the College, Davidson and several friends, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in an effort to balance out an education which they considered "too intellectual and urban." He developed "strong opinions" about improving the CCC and took them to President Roosevelt. At the age of 22, Davidson was appointed secretary of the President's Committee on the Civilian Conservation Corps, and became instrumental in establishing Camp William James, "a sort of CCC House Plan where people from all classes were brought together;" a similar camp in Mexico which rebuilt a village destroyed by an earthquake and which subsequently...
Dear Little Nira. U.S. companies were meanwhile calling themselves Alcoa (Aluminum Co. of America) or Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.) or Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York). After the advent of Basic (British American Scientific International Commercial) English, acronyms faltered in favor of the New Deal's AAA, CCC, TVA, WPA, led by F.D.R. himself. Indeed, legend has it that the death of the National Industrial Recovery Act (ruled unconstitutional) left bereft of rhyme or reason a host of Depression-born U.S. girls named Nira...
...recommendation Shriver did not comment on in his brief report was that the Peace Corps not limit its activities to underdeveloped nations. The idea is that the Corps could also do work in this country--much in the manner suggested by Senator Humphrey's proposed revival of the CCC. Obviously, the amplifications of such an extension of the Corps idea are tricky and by no means easy to predict; the recession, for example, creates both an opportunity for successful large-scale Corps work in this country and the possibility that too many people will be reminded of times they would...