Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day in Washington Secretary of the Interior Ickes, PWAdministrator, revealed that he had allocated all but $150,000,000 of the $3,300,000,000 public works fund. He, too, forecast further emergency expenditures by the Government next year, when he declared: "I wouldn't be at all surprised if Congress is asked to provide us with additional funds." He estimated that he could use another...
Also last week the Government's latest relief agency, Civil Works Administration, whelped with the aid of a $400,000,000 grant from the public works fund, was distributing its pay checks, thus removing 1,183,438 jobless from local charity roils. These men had been required to work for their dole on small emergency projects...
Last week, the Rosenwald Fund (reporting on its activities since the death of the creator in January 1932), announced that its school-building work was ended. But, said Reporter-President Edwin Rogers Embree, the cause of Negro education is far from won. Eight Southern States average $44 per year for a white child's education; $12.50 for a Negro's. Rosenwald Fund will henceforth concentrate on improving the quality of the 15,000 Negro teachers in the schools it built. Prime means: scholarships for promising individuals; and to the four centres of higher Negro education-in Washington, Atlanta...
...assumed a greater responsibility towards the needy student than ever before. The most striking manifestation of this heightened interest in financially needy undergraduates is the provision of emergency jobs for those who have neither the scholastic standing to obtain scholarships nor the desire to borrow money from the Loan Fund. While all men above Group VI have been eligible for the positions, it was found possible to place only one hundred and thirty-eight of the two hundred and eighty-five that applied. In spite of this failure to cover the entire need, however, the innovation has been both...
...scale of rents at Yale runs slightly under that at Harvard, thanks to a special fund which was saved out of the cost of building the Colleges. The minimum rental is $110, ten dollars more that that at Harvard, but the maximum is only $400 per man, nearly two hundred below that at Harvard. For food, the College resident pays $8 for twenty-one meals, fifty cents less than in the Houses. Yale has copied Harvard in fixing the prices for fourteen or seven meals per week at a much higher proportional rate. Another plan devised at Cambridge and copied...