Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never any cheers, no amazement. At the table, as a matter of fact, many people would not suspect that Bufano is one of the greatest living sculptors. Also, the model for Bufano's St. Francis was not my friend Joseph Danysh, Regional Adviser for The Federal Art Project on the West Coast. The model was St. Francis-inwardly, outwardly, materially, and in spirit...
...That only one important New Deal law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, is now in danger in the Courts; that the Administration apparently has a courtproof substitute for AAA in the present Soil Conservation Law, which is adequate to deal with the Dust Bowl; that the biggest project which the Supreme Court will not allow the New Deal is another NRA, and six new judges could not make that constitutional for the Supreme Court was unanimous upon...
Because Nevada, in amending its Constitution, observes an "ample interval of deliberation" as urged by Theodore Roosevelt, and requires passage by both houses during two successive sessions of the Legislature (it meets in odd-numbered years), and then submission to popular referendum, Nevada's lottery project was not imminent last week. By 1939, when Nevadans may vote on it, present public opinion may have changed...
...behind last week's horseplay was a perfectly serious and, for the U. S., unique project sponsored by Senator William Marsh of Tonopah and Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...
President Roosevelt last week sent a chit to remind his Congress that one of his New Deal projects would be ready to begin functioning before the end of this year. That was the $45,000,000 Bonneville dam on the Columbia River 30 miles above Portland. He sent a report saying: "Incidental to its major purpose of improving navigation, the project will produce electric energy which will be used in the operation of the dam, locks and fish-ways, and surplus power will be available for distribution to the public." He urgently advised Congress to pass a bill providing...