Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio by 30-year-old James Roosevelt. If several of the Assistant President's statements seemed a trifle brash, the last at least was indisputable. So many people still could not believe that young Mr. Roosevelt's father's current $5,000,000,000 pump-priming program would promptly end the current Depression that, even though Son Roosevelt's arguments were being stated less ingenuously by James A. Farley, Henry A. Wallace, et al., the program last week had not proceeded much beyond the talking stage. While economists, political pundits, politicians, columnists, editorial writers and even...
...Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million Federal dollars to Pennsylvania's $65,000.000 public-works program, and it was established that Little Matt so far has bid low on about $13,000,000 worth of those contracts. From the Governor's side of the gutter, Chairman Kelly demanded and obtained a WPA investigation of his charges that Boss Guffey bosses State WPA voters. Replied Senator...
Modern medicos do not place quite so much reliance on the curative properties of music as some of their earlier colleagues did. But last week some 300 students, faculty members and guests gathered at Johns Hopkins to hear a program of music written for pathological purposes. The program, put together by famed Medical Historian Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, included a "Frottola" by 16th-century Composer Marchetto Cara, written to help cure the Marchese of Mantua of syphilis; a piece played in the 17th Century to cure tarantism, popularly believed to be caused by the bite of a tarantula; hymnlike music...
Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg, 17, is the youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage...
...traffic on land-grant roads. Reiterating his opposition to a subsidy and his belief that many roads should "go through the wringer," Chairman Wheeler disbanded the conference with an announcement that while it would be possible to put through emergency legislation at this session of Congress, a long-range program was out of the question. This week Senator Wheeler confers with a group of Government officials. ¶ Considered three radically new activities for RFC-financing underwriters, financing utility expansion, financing businessmen with burdensome inventories...