Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uppermost in the minds of David Lasser, Pinky Harrington and Congress is the fact that WPA's appropriation of $1,425,000,000 will be spent by February 7 (3 weeks ahead of schedule). The inevitable request for a deficiency appropriation to carry Relief until June 30 will give the 76th Congress its first big battle, give WPA's critics their chance to try for amendments to end Relief-in-politics, to cancel the blank-check system of allotting funds to the Administration...
...serviced," increased $30,000,000,000 between 1932 and 1937. "Have you not overlooked the fact that as national income increases, tax revenues increase, even without a rise in tax rates? . . . Tax receipts of the Federal Government increased from $2,080,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933 to $6,242,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June...
...already announced Civil Service examinations for 25 chemists to serve as project leaders. Sites were chosen, the Secretary tactfully explained, near other scientific and industrial experimenters in order to provide a "stimulus to creative thinking." Deadline for starting work on all four projects: end of this fiscal year (June 30 next...
...fact that student rebellions had given the college an undeserved reputation for being Red, decided that Frederick Robinson lacked "the human qualities" needed by a college president, asked the Board of Higher Education to do something about it. Still Tammany-controlled, the board refused to oust him. But last June, as the result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year. The college calmed, today is as peaceful as a vacated battle field. When Dr. Robinson offered his resignation last week, with one hand...
...that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...