Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week, Congress in four months had made progress only on national defense, deficiency appropriations, reorganization. It had finished only four out of eleven major supply bills. Committee hearings but no debates had been held on such time-takers as revision of Social Security, Labor Relations, Wages & Hours...
...read an inscription on a big U-shaped building at the World's Fair which, still unfinished last week, was a focus of embarrassment for the Works Progress Administration, whose show at the Fair it is. Representative Woodrum's committee to investigate WPA before voting its 1940 money (TIME, April 20, et seq.), sent to New York City two Treasury engineers to look into the costs and efficiency of WPA projects compared to private projects. The Treasury's men made clear that WPA's monument to itself is a monument also to expense...
...land under U. S. engineers. Senator Bilbo vows that 8,000,000 of the 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes would hop at the chance to escape the white man's yoke, live on the white man's subsidies until they establish farms and businesses. They would progress from a military government to a territorial commonwealth, finally to an independent republic. Their promised land would adjoin little Liberia, which a U. S. society set up for Negro freedmen...
...abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder grew. Best guess was that isolationists had hit on a new scheme to keep...
This week, for the first time, a writer had attempted to make articulate this wordless world of sleep. The writer is James Joyce; the book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure...