Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large projects and about its executive set-up (last week the committee, having found $21,000,000 could be knocked out of WPA's $71,000,000 list of administrative costs & materials, talked of having the General Accounting Office audit all WPA expenditures in at least one sample past year). Another reason: when PWA builds something in his community a Congressman can point and say, "I got you that, folks." You can't point to a pile of WPA-raked leaves...
...near his home town, Charlotte, he still teaches a Bible Class. Dry and anti-tobacconist, he was elected Michigan's Lieutenant Governor seven times, presided over the State Senate in decent obscurity. Then last March conservative Republican Governor Frank Fitzgerald died and Luren Dickinson succeeded him. In the past three months he has given Michigan its godliest and goofiest government...
...passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line and the Cuban Government, of a growth of Cuban anti-Semitism due to the landing of 5,000 refugees in Havana during the past year. Lawyer Loewe slashed his wrists, leaped overboard. Another passenger took poison, was saved when crew members smashed in his stateroom door...
Manhattanites were interested but not immediately ecstatic. Though the exhibition was boldly billed "Art of Tomorrow" to outbid the Museum of Modern Art's "Art in Our Time," a few critics meanly suggested that it was actually art of the past. Curator Hilla Rebay, her blue eyes ablaze, rose to this with two good observations and one transcendental line...
Last week, Dr. Anders was indicted for illegally "selling" Barrick some 10,000 half-grain morphine tablets in the past two years. No man to preserve a "damned deferential silence," he made a public case out of his indictment, spoke his mind to Philadelphia reporters. Said...