Word: projections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, McAdoo rarely makes a speech (his voice is high, squeaky) except on behalf of his pet project: no Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal shipping. In Washington, he is considered a greatly diminished public figure, but still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion...
...University of Georgia, Franklin Roosevelt eschewed politics except to say that Georgia "really does not believe either in demagoguery or feudalism dressed up in Democratic clothes." He saved his full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant emphasis and deliberateness in his delivery. Before he finished, people realized...
...President Arthur F. Hall of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., head of Lincoln's mortgage department. A onetime flying teacher, inventor of a revolving neon sign, 33-year-old Bill Hall is not a stodgy real-estate man. Last week he was promoting a unique private-&-public housing project hopefully aimed at solving Fort Wayne's problem by pleasing rich and poor alike...
...anyone interested in trends in American art," said he, "this exhibition is extremely revealing. ... A healthier balance between content and interpretation is on the way. We find artists on the same project influencing one another in the significant manner that artists' groups have always influenced their members...
...archeology has been patiently indexing every known objet d'art of the Christian world of the first 13 centuries, A.D. Over 75,000 trinkets and treasures have been catalogued. Last week the department announced that an anonymous gift of $100,000 would greatly accelerate the project. Completion, said Princeton proudly, is now expected within the first half of the 20th Century...