Word: nya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal had already spent $736,000,000 to put 350,000 idle city-bound youngsters in CCC camps, $14,000,000 to help students stay in college. Much of NYA's work was to be along the same lines. About 150,000 youths, drawn exclusively from families on Relief, would be given work relief jobs at $15 per month, set to building Youth Centres, taking a Youth Census. About 100,000 high-school youths would get $6 per month for carfare, lunch, incidentals. About 120,000 college undergraduates would get $15 per month and a selected few thousand would...
...NYA's final function will be not only to train some 150,000 youths for jobs but to try to get jobs for them. Explained President Roosevelt: "We can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women." Employers "in all types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just...
...Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made by a peahen named Madame Blanche who emitted a shrill Nya-a-a-a each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept time to Goldman band music. The "pop" concerts started in the White Plains West Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...