Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor. Red of nose, nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour...
Director Cahill and advisers were untroubled by this expected criticism, because in the first month of the project they had laid down a long-range program. The Project's personnel, they decided, was to be drawn from relief rolls in four classes: professional, skilled, intermediate and unskilled. As by their works they became better known, skilled men were employed in research, teaching and craft work, intermediates formed an apprentice class for training, and unskilled personnel came in handy in various ways...
...citizens who seldom saw an oil painting in their lives are now not only seeing plenty but learning such things as the reason paintings crack (more oil in bottom layers of pigment than in top layers), the question remains as to how firmly rooted this program is. One answer to that question is political and obvious. Another answer can be made only when time has had a chance to sap the present enthusiasms of the school children of Salem, Oregon, the Junior League of Sioux City, Iowa, and their counterparts in other communities...
...analytical trail, Investigator Goodfellow extended his research to cover the program's dramatization of telepathy case histories. In one of them thought transference was said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried in a woodshed. Last week, Dr. Goodfellow announced that again telepathy had had nothing to do with the case, cited California Supreme Court records, said that the grave had been found by a small boy who peeped through a knothole...
Under the direction of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, the Summer School had its best enrollment in seven years, with 9,167 students registered. This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of organized summer studies there and the fifth anniversary of the new adult education program introduced by Mather...