Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only $440,000,000 of that amount, of which $100,000,000 was for housing. Administrator Hopkins spent $933,000,000 on doles before he succeeded in making the states take over direct relief. By June 30 he will have spent some $1,495,000,000 additional on Works Progress Administration, the fancy name for work relief. Also, a new relief man had appeared in the person of Rexford Tugwell who got $246,390,000 for rural resettlement...
...fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist was Manhattan...
...exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise, I believe that the muckraking books have had value at least to the extent of keeping us aware of our responsibilities. Complacency is sweet, but it is an enemy of progress and may lead to stagnation...
...student submitting the best poster for Father's Day (June 21) the Cigar Progress Board will give a scholarship. To President Roosevelt (who invariably smokes Camel cigarets) the Board will send a chest of 500 fine cigars on Father's Day, which is to the tobacco trade what Mother's Day is to florists...