Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...
Scrubbed whistle-clean, the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant was rededicated in Manhattan. Commented Joseph Hudnut of Harvard Architectural School in The New Republic: "This ponderous, huge monster has seized this unaffected and reticent man and holds him ... in an eternal pillory of pomp and pretense...
...would provide decent housing for six hundred Cambridge families. The bill has been gathering dust on the desk since February when it was passed by the City Council, and today there is a very definite danger that the United States Housing Authority may withdraw the $4,5000,000 grant which will make these new homes possible unless the bill is signed immediately...
...along. Certain members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove to the Mayor that they want the housing project, and that they want it without...
...hall wages--in spite of the adjusted rates--will cut down the profit margin upon which the Temporary Student Employment Plan depends for its existence. Since the N.Y.A. funds are to serve the same purpose as the T.S.E. money, i.e., work-scholarships, there is no reason why the government grant cannot be used to make up part of the salaries now paid by T.S.E. "Pride goeth before the fall" and a haughty University can best serve its own ends by accepting a liberal government...