Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few days the Cambridge branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League has been circulating a petition urging Mayor Lyons to sign the bill, It will prove to him that, despite his statements to the contrary, the people of Cambridge really do want the new housing project. In itself, the petition is a good thing, for it is a time-tried method of expressing public opinion. It will crystallize for both Mayor Lyons' and the public's benefit the fact that there is no opposition to the housing bill other than that coming from Mayor Lyons himself...
Seeing the cost to Cambridge to the proposed project would be exceedingly small--$500,000--in comparison to the advantages that would be gained, there is no possible reason why any intelligent Cantabridgian should not sign the city-wide petition. The project will bring not only jobs which will pay union wages to Cambridge laborers but business to Cambridge merchants as well. It will mean that slum areas which are now rapidly depreciating in value will be rehabilitated. Furthermore, the cost to the city of police, fire protection, health service, and delinquency control will be greatly reduced by the abolition...
...Taxpayers' Association has in no way objected to this bill; in fact it has voted for the plan all along. Certain members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign...
...Tuesday the CRIMSON will poll the members of the Class of 1942 on what they think of the various Freshman courses, what value they have derived from them, and their opinions of lecturers and section men. The results of the project will be incorporated into the 1930 edition of the Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses...
...housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would get over a six per cent annual return on its investment, thereby raising its annual income...