Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...
...make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning $10,000. Even a jobless single man working on a PWA relief project might soon find himself owing the Government an income tax on money the same government had paid him to keep from starving...
...nation's 3,300 nonFederal prisons would be shown how the Federal Bureau of Prisons runs its penal institutions. And to the third in the Bureau of Investigation would go local law enforcement officers for instruction in the complex art of crook catching. This week the last project was the first to get underway...
...charge of this project was a compact, wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world...
...under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools...