Word: nya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel, Nya...
...employers, a more rigid schedule, and the exacting work in competition with professionals will be difficult. But loans and scholarships have been increased, the number of student waiters has been tripled, and the application for a number of the $500 governmental loans should help to alleviate the cut in NYA allocations. There is ample work available, and the Student Employment Office is in a position to guarantee a job to any man who really needs...
Over a year ago, the University applied for NYA funds, partly as the result of student pressure to aid men in getting through college. The government has since cut down the NYA allottments, and it is hoped that these new government loans will help compensate for the drop...
...supply bill last week, economy-minded committeemen slashed $75,818,000 which would have kept CCC going another year. For good measure they gouged some $100,000,000 out of an appropriation for the National Youth Administration, left NYA only some $50,000,000 to carry on its defense-worker training. NYA is somebody else's pet: Mrs. Roosevelt...
...standbys like AAA, CCC. FBI, NYA, RFC, SEC and TVA had been around so long that they were now more or less familiar. Anyone who didn't know these initials was out of luck. And knowing them now was no good: most had been superseded by weird new wartime initials. For instance: FCC is less important than DCB (Defense Communications Board), and NLRB plays second fiddle to NWLB (National War Labor Board...