Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project...
...first place it guarantees the financial success of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances, the Red Book (the annual yearbook), etc. This year a fund has been set up for the use of the Freshmen at any time. This fund can be borrowed to start any project, the money to be returned later. Further, a donation is made of $300 to defray the expenses of the annual Freshman Smoker...
Haled into a Woburn, Mass., court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable...
Boiling mad, the Democratic National Committee burned up the wires to 'Quoddy to get the facts. The War Department, in Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...
...with artillery sounds at its first performance there in 1882. The fact that this old warhorse received its first NewYork rendition with similar effects last week was due to the Works Progress Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden. The WPA's Federal Music Project, which has some 16,000 musicians on its rolls, wished to weld 210 members of three New York City WPA orchestras and a WPA symphonic band of 75 into a single unit for one big concert. Colonel Kilpatrick, who last spring offered $1,000 for the best suggestion to make...