Word: nya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NYA jobs, L. S. U. students had to get politicians' recommendations...
...profitable a plan should certainly be extended to include many more colleges. This could best be done through the suggested method that present recipients of NYA aid be culisted in these "undergraduate faculties...
...Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello did not mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn...
...NYA graph has not been a smoothly rising curve. Objectors have fought it because they feared politics, threats to academic freedom. Aid reached less than half the boys and girls who asked for it. In 1937 the fund was severely cut (to $50,000,000). Finicky colleges like Harvard and Yale haughtily kept NYA out because its pay was skimpy. It was criticized for having such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, William Green, Owen D. Young, the late Amelia Earhart on its advisory board...
...important trends showed through Director Williams' report last week: NYA begins to think public works relief more important than academic relief; employers scouting schools and colleges have begun to ask for NYA students. But the big news of last week's birthday was that the child seemed virtually past danger from economic undernourishment or political...