Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grants will bring an English girl from Cambridge University to study in the United States for the first time. Nine states, the District of Columbia, Brazil, the British Isles, Canada, China, Puerto Rico, and Turkey are represented by the fellowship winners, who have studied in 30 universities here and abroad...
...nation thinking seriously about more Valley Authorities, but thus far the mercenaries of the special interest lobbies have been able to route all other TVA-like plans to an early grave. Now the lobbies are desperately trying to sink their hooks into Truman's proposal to set up a Columbia Valley Authority...
This CVA, as the Administration sees it, would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley; it would replace the timid splinter programs of the federal bureaus with a unified plan on the order of the one that worked so well in the Tennessee Valley...
...they were effectively handling the problems of irrigation, navigation, conservation, and flood control, then a CVA would be superfluous. But private business and the bureaus are not doing even an acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass the CVA bill, it will have something, at least, to be proud of, regardless of the rest...
...includes Widener and the University's 80-odd other collections, has available two internships for next year, offering stipends of $1600-2000 each. The Brooklyn Public Library, on a similar arrangement, pays college graduate trainees $2100 a year, and helps them to take courses, while working, library schools at Columbia or Pratt Institute...