Word: nya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report, compiled by Council Chairman Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 and John C. Robbins, Jr. '42 and passed unanimously by the Council, stated that out of a total of 2,130 applicants for student employment last year, only a little more than half were given jobs, and that NYA aid would have done much to make up this disparity...
...Colleges Use NYA...
Nominating twelve candidates to represent them in the NYA conference at Washington Friday and Saturday, the Freshman class jumped into the national political arena yesterday...
Mary, 18, is plump, pink-cheeked, Catholic, the daughter of a musician who deserted his family for a chorus girl. Mary has a part-time NYA job, goes to evening college, not because she likes to study but because she believes it gives her prestige. She also shows her insecurity by constantly changing her hairdo. Mary likes to dance, mortally hates & fears being kissed by boys (a transfer of resentment against her father). Eventually, assured by her interviewer that there was no harm in kissing, Mary learned to like...
...overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...