Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...
...council to govern Barcelona Province when and if it were taken. He named the Count of Montseny Mila y Camps, a Catalan, as the council's president. Reviewing the offensive before a meeting of his Ministers, the Generalissimo called upon all his Spaniards to contribute money for the reestablishment of normal conditions in the captured area...
...Jews, the "cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." He denies emphatically that Jewish money in Palestine has helped the lot of the Arab masses...
...picture of 1938 by the New York Motion Picture Critics, who may or may not have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic...