Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borrow as little as possible, cites Kalamazoo. Mich., which burned its last bond in November 1937. having embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy. The opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found...
...Premier Angus Macdonald, a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University, spoke at the opening of a cooperative housing project at a new town, Tompkinsville, named for Father Tompkins. When Father Jimmy rose to speak at the University conference, his audience roared applause. Two days later, an outsider, Political Economist Harold Adams Innis of the University of Toronto, told the conference: "You have reached the dangerous stage in which all men think well of you." Less gallant was the University's Peter Nearing's plea for group medical care: "Our women are . . . puny, with few Venuses among them...
...after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby (1932), U. S. radio listeners first heard Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's news comments on a national hookup. Long before the baby's body had been found, Commentator Carter had become the British baritone Cassandra of news broadcasting, cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace. Last year a menace vague as his own rose over the Boake Carter broadcasts, has hovered there ever since...
...Biochemist Harold Oliver Wiles of Chicago's Sprague Memorial Institute, M. L. Fisher of the Manteno, Ill. State Hospital and E. W. Schoeffel...
While Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and his bride were having fun in Alaska, 2 of his kin were having fun at the 11th annual reunion of the Clan Ickes at Ickesberg, Pa. Sister Julia came on from Altoona. Distant Cousin Bill, a $1,300 clerk in Cousin Harold's PWA, and Third Cousin Patrick, a $1,620 clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling...