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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief was another subject calling for action before June 30, when WPA's appropriations would run out. Last fortnight the House, with fair speed, passed a measure granting as much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lumber Pile | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Cadle Tabernacle and the State fair grounds in Indianapolis were arenas last week for 10,000 yowling old delegates to Dr. Francis E. Townsend's fourth annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dumplin's and Dollars | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...union newspapers in and out of A. F. of L. which denounce his proposed Wagner Act amendments. In broadsides to all State and city federations of A. F. of L. unions, he complained that C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild was seducing the impoverished Labor press with fair words, paid space, cash contributions. Said he: ". . . Many of these so-called A. F. of L. publications have . . . ridiculed the position of the . . . Federation ... on important legislative matters. ... A situation of this kind is ... intolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undeclared Peace | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...personable wife Sophie, who was 46, came to join him, and they put up at a hotel in Ilidze, about twelve miles from the provincial capital, Sarajevo. It rained dismally on the maneuvers, but the morning of St. Vitus' day dawned fair and fine. To celebrate it they had planned to pay a state visit to the provincial capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...York World's Fair manager is suave mustachioed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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