Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a demonstration should do a great deal toward building up the spirit that seemed so definitely lacking in the stands last Saturday. Is there an honorary society or similar organization which is able and willing to get to work on this project? --The Cornell...
Launching what will probably be its major project of the year, the Student Council last night voted to conduct an investigation of education of Harvard in general, with particular reference to the systems of concentration, tutorial instruction general examinations, and to the fields in which no tutorial or general examinations are required...
Reporter Blackburn, continued Mr. Hunter, knew plenty about one case of WPA "inefficiency": Records showed that Blackburn was given a WPA job in January 1936, assigned to a tree-cutting project, suspended for 15 days for drinking "in sufficient amounts 1) to draw the . . . attention of local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told...
...14th volumes of his multiple-volumed Men Of Good Will, a vast, panoramic affair including several hundred characters, laid largely in pre-War France, and now totaling 3,756 pages. Five years ago, when Author Remains published his first volume and boldly announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly to 5,000 copies for each installment that it was plain Author Romains had a group of readers determined to follow him to the bitter...
...five million dollar project, for which Lyons asked permission for a grant of 45 per cent of the total from the PWA received a setback when the Legislature voted down its part in the proceedings. Lyons said, however, that he would continue fighting for his plan, principal effect of which on Harvardians would be the removal of the pill-box in the center of Harvard square...