Word: nya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was announced that NYA's spending money would be $74,500,000. This sum exceeded last year's birthday present by $24,500,000. And for the first time, Congress had given NYA a direct allotment instead of lumping it with other miscellaneous WPA funds. From these facts, Washington observers concluded that NYA has become a permanent contour on the U. S. relief...
...have determined that we shall do something for the Nation's unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put into CCC camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown...
...Cradle unemployed youth in CCC and NYA...
Hungary, still an "enemy country" to France, was not officially included in M. Delbos' itinerary but his train halted at Budapest on the way across to Prague. When the train pulled in at 6 a. m. Foreign Minister Kálmán de Kánya lay snug in his warm bed, having sent an underling to get M. Delbos up in the cold dawn to receive M. de Kánya's good wishes...
Students should register only when they are receiving NYA student aid or expect to quit school as soon as they find full-time employment...