Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida's beaches, promptly gave up heliotherapy and headed for Washington. Harold Ickes, looking most uncomfortable, paid a prolonged call at the White House. Afterward he announced to the Press: "There has been no investigation made of Farley as a person. . . . PWA reserves a right to investigate any project financed with its funds. Transactions involving [Farley's] firms may have been investigated. ... If they have, the findings will be turned over to the Senate...
...restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
...earnest onetime Chicago steelman who took over the general managership of Subsistence Homesteads when its original director, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, moved to the Department of Agriculture. Afterward the APer filed a dispatch quoting Manager Pynchon to the effect that the Government stood to lose $500,000 on the Reedsville project, with blame laid partly on "experimentation," partly on "errors in judgment." He also revealed that the President's No. 1 Secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, purchaser of the famed CCC toilet kits (TIME, June 12, 1933), was originator of the scheme to supply Reedsville with ready-cut houses...
...proud and potent. Depression sobered the Business School. Depression, too, brought the New Deal and the New Deal created a host of new opportunities. Last week Harvard's President James Bryant Conant publicly picked up, where President Eliot had dropped it, the project for training government servants...
Unlike the radio program. The March of Time is not a promotion project for TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. Organized separately as The March of Time Inc., the new venture must win popular support and thereby carry its own financial weight, or it will be discontinued...