Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightly, a clamor for more is being voiced. Vocational subjects attract the majority of students and most of them are learning skilled trades which will be of inestimable value to them when they leave the CCC. Informal activities such as photography, glee club and amateur radio enliven the educational program...
...first attack upon that fact was equally direct: "Is it not ... better to have a program of reform substantially completed than to have to look forward to important changes not begun? With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery, this Administration is now determined to promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command...
...nation's urge to rearm, so suddenly felt last autumn, so boldly cultivated by Franklin Roosevelt with warnings about the Dictators, was last week driving his national defense program steadily through Congress-when something happened to the urge. All went well...
...then, up in the House came a bill to authorize the building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their...
Five of the seven authors of the recently published "Economic Program for American Democracy" defended their thesis of increased government expenditures in the Dunster House Forum last night while a group of University economists commented on different phases...