Word: granting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure...
...fiscal year began last week, Reorganization took effect and PWA merged with WPA, which now means Works Projects Administration. A last act of Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm...
...last week declared Dr. William Charles White of the National Institute of Health addressing the National Tuberculosis Association in Boston. The hiding gangster he spoke of was the tuberculosis bacillus. Dr. White announced that a grant had been made to study the bacillus under the new world's biggest "cyclotron" or atom-smashing machine at the University of California, which weighs 225 tons and has just produced a record-breaking beam of 19,000,000-volt particles. By stuffing the bacillus with radioactive phosphorus produced in cyclotron bombardments, the California researchers will ry to make it give...
This venerable body, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, became suddenly rich in 1931 when Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose of Philadelphia, geologist and mining engineer, left it nearly $5,000,000. It distributes income from this hoard as grants in aid of U. S. research. President of A. P. S. is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Morris is a busy man. He has a law practice, teaches international law at University of Pennsylvania, is interested in sociology, Pennsylvania politics, collecting U. S. debts from Russia. Three years ago he asked Conklin to take over...
...most brutal instincts of mankind! We say the same, until once more . . . far from conquering our enemies we let them make us after their own image. So at long last, at the end of a ruinous era, we shall be facing again the question-which God grant us grace to face now before it is too late-'How can Satan cast out Satan...