Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
...surprised and irritated by Roman Catholics who suggested that the 4,000 youngsters arriving at Southampton from Bilbao should be placed in Catholic homes, on the ground that most Basques are Catholic. In the U. S. last week, a different Catholic reaction met the O'Day-Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor for the Leftist (Godless) cause in Spain...
...resignation, adverse committee's vote on his Supreme Court Plan, the Senate's "nomination'' of Leader Joseph T. Robinson for the Court (see p. 17). By the week's end, however, he was again pushing events before him, getting under way his first big project since his return from the tantalizing tarpon of Texas: his drive for wage & hour legislation...
...help with an extraordinary scheme: to bring one student from each of the 54 countries represented diplomatically in Washington to study a year in the U. S. Christened the Hall of Nations, and with headquarters at American University where most of the students will enroll, Professor Stowell's project already has on its advisory board 46 diplomatic representatives...
Married. Nikolai Sokoloff, 50, director of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, longtime (1918-33) conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Mrs. Ruth Haller Ottaway, 50, chairman of the National Council of Women; in Manhattan...