Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Straus knew this because for nearly two years he has run United States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided...
...sociological. Franklin Roosevelt's immediate reason for expanding it is economic. Giving USHA another $800,000,000 is a big feature of the Great White Rabbit of 1939 whereby business recovery is to be accelerated in time for the 1940 election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary...
...announcing this drive, Mr. Arnold devoted only a short, gentle paragraph to labor unions. But last week, with the A. F. of L.'s building trades strikes on WPA full blown throughout the land, Attorney General Murphy declared: "We will expose racketeering and drive it to cover by prosecution...
...activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would be considered penal offenses...
...better "rectify her conception of East Asia." It was carefully timed to coincide with the first of Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie's conferences to settle the month-old Tientsin blockade. At the first meeting between the two, Mr. Arita began by asking for an "accord of policy"-I. e., a recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however...