Word: greenbelts
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...University does not expire until next June, was not officially explained. Personal reasons might have caused it: his wife recently left Washington and returned to Manhattan. But his official position in Washington had also grown uncomfortable. He still enjoyed the Presidential favor, particularly shown in a visit to his Greenbelt satellite city (TIME, Nov. 23). However, his Resettlement Administration, with its high costs (administrative overhead 13? on the dollar) and record of questionable success, faced difficulty in getting new appropriations from Congress. In parts of the South many a no-good farmer who has been "rehabilitated" now drives along...
...bright afternoon he bundled his good friend, Under Secretary of Agriculture & Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell, into an open automobile, whisked him out of Washington and out of the shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine...
Greatly cheered was Truster Tugwell, therefore, by the President's exclamations of approval as they viewed the half-finished buildings and roads of Greenbelt. Heartily he applauded the modernistic little houses which will be rented to 1,000 low-paid white-collar families at $20 to $40 per month; the double-horseshoe plan on which the town is being laid out, with underpasses for pedestrians and with automobile traffic routed to the outskirts; the surrounding "Greenbelt" of farms to furnish food and guard against industrial intrusion; the community centre, post office, schools, shops, athletic field; the 22-acre artificial...
...Greenbelt is the first of four such projects which Administrator Tugwell has launched throughout the land.* Cried the President to some of its 4,000 WPA builders: I've often seen the blueprints of Greenbelt. The actual sight far exceeds anything I ever dreamed of. I wish everyone in the country could see it. It is good to get people out in the country. It is an experiment that ought to be copied in every community in the United States...