Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected these reports to be favorable when he made ready, last week, to present to Congress the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. Tacked to this 40-million-dollar bill as a somewhat disproportionate rider was a provision, involving an ultimate expenditure of 600 millions, authorizing the New York project. House Leader Tilson gave Mr. Dempsey to understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that it would be heard thus or not at all. Both visited the President, who was preserving strict neutrality in the controversy. Mr. Dempsey threatened to withhold his entire appropriations...
...National Student Federation of America, of which F. V. Field '27 is Harvard's representative on the executive committee, shares the auspices for the project with the American Advisory Committee which numbers among its members, Stephen P. Duggan, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin University, President Hibben of Princeton, President Garfield of Williams, President MacCracken of Vassar, President Neilson of Smith, Norman Hapgood '90, John F. Moors '83, Fellow of Harvard College, Frank A. Vanderlip and various other educators and public leaders...
...Margaine project for a national oil monopoly in France, recently approved by the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, has aroused a storm of protest from American oil interests. Concerned over the uncertain fate of their receiving and the distributing stations in which twenty million dollars have been invested, the Americans have characteristically appealed to the United States government...
...California, has been leased to a Tokio syndicate. In view of the close proximity of this district to the American border, Washington officials fear that the move may mean the establishment of a naval base and perhaps a Japanese colony. Twenty-five years ago the Senate blocked a similar project on the ground that it would be a source of danger to the safety of the United States. Consequently the Foreign Relations Committee is prepared to take active measures to frustrate the possibility of such a recurrence...
...There is not anybody opposing it [the Muscle Shoals project] of any considerable influence except the power trust and the fertilizer trust. They are fighting it, and fighting it to the death. They attacked my colleague [Mr. Underwood] two years ago and insulted him with their editorial attacks. They have insulted me or would have done so if I did not consider the source. But what do I care about these little hired hickory-nut heads sticking something in their pockets, and some little irresponsible whelp going out and writing something hid behind a screen reflecting...