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Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab. In 1897 he succeeded Mr. Schwab as superintendent of Homestead Steel Works. In 1901 when Mr. Schwab left the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. to become U. S. Steel's first president, Mr. Corey followed him as head of Carnegie. Two years later he again succeeded Mr. Schwab-this time as Steel's president, a position he held until...
Experiments. Neither Director Wilson nor anyone else knew what a subsistence homestead was when he began. There were at least three chief possibilities: 1) to provide men who worked in large city industries with homes and small garden plots where they could live and raise much of what they needed when unemployed; 2) to set the same class of workers up in small communities and provide small industries for a cash income; 3) to transfer farmers from worn-out lands to homesteads of 30 or 40 acres on good land where they can grow their own food and perhaps pick...
...Wilson furnished capital to buy land and erect houses-cheap land but good. The co-operatives frequently furnished the homesteaders and the labor for building, so that the total cost per homestead was kept down below $2,500. Local corporations were formed wherever possible to run the projects, and the homesteaders agreed to pay off the original costs with interest at 4% over a period of 30 years. On a few projects, such as Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite near Reedsville, W. Va., no local organization was at hand and Mr. Wilson had to finance it completely. Size of projects...
...appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson and swim a faster crawl than any of the others, turned professional two years ago. Lenore Kight, a dark, agile swimmer of Homestead, Pa., who took Miss Madison's place at the outdoor championships last summer by winning four championships, found her position challenged by a Seattle girl. Olive McKean, coached by the Washington Athletic Club's famed Ray Daughters. There was another new name last week- Mrs. Arthur Jarrett...