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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting Senator Adams on a chilly spot did not finish the President's work. His secretariat sent out hundreds of letters to citizens anxious or angry about the cut. in which blame was heaped squarely upon Congress. One letter said: "The needs of WPA are very close to the President's heart...
...letter to Chairman Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, President Roosevelt urged revival of two pet projects: 1) The projected $200,000,000 Florida Ship Canal (on which $5,400,000 of WPA money was spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine...
...plain Socialists or Earl Browder's Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
...Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...
Contrary to the suggestions of overexcited critics, there is nothing subtle or thought-provoking about Carroll's contrasts between the letter and the spirit of religion. His plays are allegorical in form and emotional in appeal. Their very simplicity is a stage asset, has the strength of black against white. Carroll is not yet really important, but he is Irish: he has rich-juiced dialogue, abundant humor, powerful characterizations. Mellow, charming Canon Lavelle and frigid, heartless Father Shaughnessy possibly provide too pat a contrast. But both are brilliant stage characters, inspire the belief that Carroll will some day achieve...