Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry. The Man of the Year launched a 1934 drive in behalf of half-dead heavy industry by setting up the National Housing Administration which by year-end had induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read...
Thief John Dillinger, on whose grave near Indianapolis last week appeared a spray of greens inscribed "Merry Christmas, Old Pal," was the No. 1 catch of a New Deal's crime drive which in one year landed every major public enemy save one in jail or grave, solved seven out of eleven kidnappings, convicted three kidnappers...
...insured mortgages under the terms of the Federal Housing Act. President Roosevelt last week sent letters to 44 Governors pointing out that Administrator Moffett had found that their state laws hampered, if they did not totally forbid, financial institutions from joining in the Federal Government's housing drive...
Last week in Manhattan's Union League Club, a die-hard Republican organization which, after the Civil War, used to send carpetbaggers South to round up the Negro vote, was launched a drive for money to build a new Lincoln library, dining hall, and gymnasium, make many a campus improvement. President Johnson announced the $1,000 check from Alumnus Brooks as the first contribution, put it up as bait for $399,000 more...
...Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter; Sheridan was Grant's equal in battle but never commanded a large army. For Burnside, Hancock, Meade, et al., McCormick has little but harsh words: "Strive as he might, Grant could not drive them forward...