Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for future legislation, the President sent Congress the National Resources Committee's 120,000-word report on a long-range plan recommending Federal, State and municipal expenditure of $2,100,000,000 over the next six years for flood control, irrigation and navigation improvement all over the U. S. Four days later, the President followed up the committee's report with a message of his own, calling for a comprehensive study of developing and preserving U. S. forests...
...being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing customs duties; German-Austrians learned the economy of their country had been meshed with the Göring Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936); and April 10 was set as the date on which "the German men and women of Austria" will vote in a "free and secret plebiscite" whether they approve what Adolf Hitler has done by then...
...backed by the President and soon to come up before the House, is one which would seem to be a boon to education, but might turn out to be a boondoggle of American politics. Recognizing the need for federal support of a failing public school system, the Committee's plan is ideal; unfortunately it is not too practical...
...plan provides that the government appropriate $70,000,000 for the school year 1939-40, increasing the annual sum over a period of six years to $199,000,000 for 1944, spending in all $855,000,000. The greater part of the funds, which are to be proportioned according to the educational needs of the states, are supposed to go to elementary and secondary education. The two reasons given for the government splurge are that the states are helpless and that the present average educational service shows "glaring inequalities" and in certain states is "below the minimum necessary...
...other hand, if the government established a national educational board, it would not have to control national learning. As under the Committee's present plan, direct control of appropriations would not necessitate control of what is taught. There is little danger that the government will, or can, subvert the public school curriculum which is the same throughout the nation by withholding funds from some, subsidizing others. In the one case, therefore, in which the Roosevelt administration can make good use of federal efficiency, it seems to be abandoning it for political policy...