Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither the agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
...this mild argument would persuade those on the other side of the liberal chasm, was shown when Senator Norris snapped: "I have told the President that TVA should have no part in any pool with private utilities. . . . No good can come from pooling interests with enemies of the TVA program." To settle the issue, President Roosevelt appointed a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to investigate, suggest a broad national policy on power...
...play and work. . . ." Spiritually stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago, he donated $150,000 toward the erection of a planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). He gave his alma mater $100,000 in 1927 for its student housing program. His one great philanthropy, the Charles Hayden Foundation, had to wait for his death. Pronounced Charles Hayden in his will...
...National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem now definitely committed to a program of social legislation which will iron out some of the inequities of our economic order. . . . This is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times and with the lessons which the Depression taught...
Chief Gabrielson, an expert who has been with the Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will...