Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief. Following the budget message the President asked Congress for an $875,000,000 deficiency appropriation to carry WPA through next June. This will bring fiscal 1939's WPA cost to about $2,300,000,000. For fiscal 1940 the budget calls for $2,019,000,000 to be allocated between WPA and other relief agencies...
...cases involving substantial disagreement between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. in the fiscal year ended June 30, the board decided 21 for A. F. of L., 16 for C. I. O.; four were dismissed or withdrawn...
...American tour: 45 days from Plymouth to Plymouth. Disembarking from H.M.S. Repulse at Quebec on May 15, they will spend 29 jampacked days seeing and being seen in Canada from coast to coast, sandwich in four days on U. S. soil, wave final farewells to St. Johns, Newfoundland, June...
...mail, like grand opera, is something nobody expects to make a profit. But last week, with all the figures added up for the fiscal year ending last June 30, U. S. air mail revenue was reckoned at $15,301,210; contract pay to airlines at $14,564,256. Result: a $736,954 profit, first in U. S. air mail history...
...Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...