Word: harold
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Round No. 3.-$1,450,000,000 for public works and $462,000,000 for housing, roads, flood control & Federal buildings.' Of the $1,450,000,000, $45,000,000 would be spent in cash immediately. The remaining billion would be loaned by Harold Ickes' PWA to States and other political subdivisions for public improvements. The only string would be that the works should be started within six months and completed within a year or year and a half. One new wrinkle in this works program was the suggestion that instead of the old loan-grant system...
...Chicago economist, and Charles P. Schwartz. of the Chicago Plan Commission. Others, like Edwin L. Kuh Jr., a director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy...
Hicks began by saying that the idea for his book occurred after reading "Mainland," which "Nauseated me," and Harold Stearns' "Rediscovery of American," which displayed the author's renewed faith in American civilization. "My book," said Hicks, "states why I, as a radical, like America." He added that he wanted to look at his own position as a Communist and see whether his ideas held water...
...Editorial Chairman Harold M. Curtiss '39, of Milford and Adams House, a member of the Varsity Baseball team and a CRIMSON editor, will serve in collaboration with Biographical Chairman James Tobin '39, of Champaign, Illinois, and Lowell House, who, as a debater, was formerly on the Student Union executive council...
Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...