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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme to establish institutions similar to building & loan associations for that $0% of the population who rent homes. By depositing their savings in such institutions the renters would get better interest than they can get at present from banks, would thus supply funds for the building of low-cost homes to be rented back to them. In Boston, Son James, who indignantly declared it a nuisance that every move he made was interpreted as an overture for nomination as Governor or Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, called a meeting of publishers (also attended by his friend Governor Hurley) and urged them...
...annual cost little greater than that of a couple of infantry regiments, the U. S. Government has for about three years been the world's No. 1 patron of painting. Federal art lovers may or may not be right in thinking that this patronage will be the most fruitful since the Medicis, but in one respect at least it has encouraged a Renaissance. This is in the field of mural painting...
...Dangers of the Mail was chosen last year for the new Post Office Department building (TIME, March 2, 1936). Current discovery of Treasury art officials is not a young man from the West but a seasoned Connecticut artist whose murals are now waiting to be installed in a low-cost Federal Housing project in Stamford...
...Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...
...Alva B. See entered the business after graduating from presumably the least punishing prep school the Sees could find (Blair Academy), worked up to succeed his father as president in 1930. Biggest job the company ever handled was the installation of 24 elevators in New York County Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week when Westinghouse bought it from the Sees for 10,000 shares of common stock, worth $1,490,000 at the market price. Assets...