Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Allentown (Pa.), Birmingham (Ala.), Detroit. Beneficiaries: 44,000 slum dwellers. Rentals: $3.75 to $4.25 per room per month. This batch brought USHA slum clearance loans up to a total of $111,070,000 to provide for 20,833 families. Meanwhile, into its Lend-Spend bill the Senate wrote a new appropriation of $300.000,000 for Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (see below...
Just how to lend & spend $2,816,905,000 to halt Depression II was the main subject before the Senate last week. Mississippi's Bilbo explained for four hours how to end Depression II by sending the South's unemployed Negroes back to Africa. Illinois' J. Ham Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming...
Montana's bitter, nasal Wheeler announced he had just learned that Harry Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, dispenser of one-half of the billions in the Lend-Spend bill, had announced his choice for Senator in Iowa's impending primary election. Said Mr. Wheeler: "I was shocked. . . . Members of the Senate, and myself, frequently have denounced corporations which place slips in the pay envelopes saying, 'You should vote for such & such a candidate...
...most, U. S. Communists ask their willing and unwilling allies to unite upon a 17-point program, extending from soak-the-rich taxation to equal rights for Negroes (who in several big cities lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet...
...Sclznick-International guided by fancy: after 25,000 screen tests(sic) had been viewed, the freckled face of Tommy Kelly of the Bronx was selected as that bearing closest resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...