Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FSCC. Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., headed by Jesse W. Tapp, also went into action. The Lend-Spend bill gave Mr. Tapp $50,000,000. On hand from previous appropriations he still had about $30,000,000. He revealed that in June, FSCC's beneficiaries had increased by 4,000,000 to a total of 11,000,000 persons receiving surplus farm products free. With his new money Mr. Tapp set out to buy & give even more generously...
...taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised...
...sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
Having Wonderful Time (Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; TIME, June...
Holiday (Katharine Hepburn, Gary Grant, Edward Everett Horton; TIME, June...