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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President approved $57.577.000 of U. S. Housing Authority loan contracts for slum clearance projects in Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Allentown (Pa.), Birmingham (Ala.), Detroit. Beneficiaries: 44,000 slum dwellers. Rentals: $3.75 to $4.25 per room per month. This batch brought USHA slum clearance loans up to a total of $111,070,000 to provide for 20,833 families. Meanwhile, into its Lend-Spend bill the Senate wrote a new appropriation of $300.000,000 for Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (see below...
Mural paintings are usually unveiled with only a little more fanfare than attends the effort of a carpenter putting the last lick on the last nail in a wall. But in San Francisco and in Swarthmore, Pa. last week, two new murals were opened to the public in the midst of such community excitement that the paintings themselves were all but lost sight...
Married, Elizabeth Rogers Roberts, 32, daughter of Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court; to Charles Alfred Hamilton, 33, sales employe of Bridgeport Brass Co.; in Kimberton, Pa. At the wedding the Supreme Court mustered one less than a majority: Chief Justice Hughes, Associate Justices Roberts, Stone, Black...
...credentials of delegates. Last week, with Stated Clerk Mudge about to retire at 70, the 150th Assembly, in Philadelphia, prepared to elect his successor. Obvious choice was a big-jawed, heavy-set Presbyterian who had worked in the "Vatican" since 1903-Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 49, of Chester, Pa., nephew of Stated Clerk Roberts and assistant since 1922 of Stated Clerk Mudge...
Meanwhile in Quarryville, Pa. met the small, Machenite Presbyterian Church in America. Its members elected as their Moderator a stiff-haired, stiff-backed Netherlander who was nominated as a man "on whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church...