Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, adding sharp irony to earnestness, did Franklin Roosevelt last week again formally request the now symbolic $150,000,000 which Congress cut from its February-through-June deficiency appropriation for WPA. Congress had left the door open for the President to ask for more money if he could define a new "emergency." He now said: "The reduction in the appropriation in itself created an emergency."* He said half the $725,000,000 voted by Congress in February would be gone by April 1, with about 3,000,000 clients still on WPA's rolls. To make the money...
However, as 95 per cent of the money used for financing University athletics comes from gate receipts, either some generous endowment must be forthcoming or else burly Western gladiators must be imported to make up a super-football machine, if the much-needed structure is to become more than a mere pipe dream. Until such time, the College can well adopt a temporary stop-gap measure in converting the unfinished top floor of Dillon Field House into two or three bunk rooms so as to take care of at least a few of the visiting aggregations. To do this would...
...with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
First place among Harvard College classes in the number of contributors was held by 1925, with 334 members giving money. Other top-ranking classes in the order named, were...
When Flagler donated the money in 1931 for the construction of a section of Widener to be devoted entirely to verse, he did so with the understanding that when the University saw fit to vacate the adjoining room, it would be added to the Poetry Room...