Word: nya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
Millions of people, from the Kreuz-Kino in Vienna to the Nya Bio in Reykjavik, know the U.S. only as it is reflected in U.S. movies. Last week, two articulate moviegoers reported how that reflection looked to them...
...through his mortarboard. Federal subsidies at the college level need no more imply Federal domination that the forty million dollars which the Office of Education annually devotes to underwriting the States' efforts in elementary education. The whole history of Federal aid to higher education, from land grants to the NYA, and more recently the annual two and a half billions expended under the GI Bill, has so far not revealed a single incident of dictation from the Potomac. Political interference with academic freedom has invariably been a curse of the very States whose autonomy Dr. Snavely so vigorously defends...
McKellar accused Williams of being a Communist sympathizer, a waster of government money (particularly in NYA), and unqualified for the job. Soon McKellar produced a letter from a clergyman charging that Williams, onetime student for the Presbyterian Ministry, had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." Then Williams' religious and political beliefs got a going-over. The Committee rejected his nomination...
...Killed NYA, NRPB...