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...Went WPA. Death came quietly to the noisiest, most fought-over agency conceived by the New Deal: Work Projects Administration. Set up in May 1935 (when the U.S. had nine million unemployed), WPA was given $10½ billion to spend. It hired 8½ million people who raked leaves, leaned on shovels-and built 77,000 bridges, 644,000 miles of roads, 116,000 buildings, 800 airports. Now some 292 workers have until next September to get the microfilmed records neatly rolled into 135 steel file cabinets...
...reporting. He got his first newspaper job on Hearst's Washington Herald soon after he left the University of Virginia in 1924. Before then he had been a sort of amateur Noel Coward, studying piano and voice, writing music and plays. Old Herald hands recall him as the noisiest man on the staff. He moved to Hearst's Universal Service, later INS, for which he wrote a Washington column...
With these assurances in the record, the Defense Committee, apparently satisfied, withdrew and left the field of battle to Ickes and Jones. Disclosure of Ickes' letter had made their feud official, squared off the Administration's noisiest, most irresistible force against its most silent, most immovable object...
Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen & Tunney, 2 & 1. Demaret shot a par 72, Sarazen 73, Ruth and Tunney 82 each. The gallery voted it more fun than a circus...