Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed at a cost of $11,500,000, $2,324,881 of which was contributed by Mr. Roosevelt's PWA...
...wall of the main circle. Gates of each unit will be so adjusted that no two can be open simultaneously. The whole structure will be enclosed by a circular tool resistant 12-ft. wire mesh fence. Cost of Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna will be $2.020,000. If PWA approves, construction will start by next December, last 14 to 16 months...
...municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much of it 15 years old, some of it nearly 30, reduced recoveries in suits against the city by 73%. In doing these and a thousand other things he had the benefit of Federal relief and PWA grants running into many millions and he imposed a 2% city sales tax, but no responsible civic group contends that the city has not got its money's worth, and far more than that by Tammany standards. As long experience of Fusion administrations proves, however, the possession of such a record...
According to Adviser Reeves, the Federal Government spent over $21,800,000 to keep rural schools open in 1934 and 1935, loaned $84,271,000 through the PWA and spent another $213,832,000 outright for school buildings and repairs up to the end of 1936. The National Youth Administration had 435,000 needy students on its lists, WPA had given work to 42,000 unemployed teachers, there have been 1,500,000 youngsters in the CCC. To NEA, however, this tale of generosity did not atone for the fact that the Association's pet Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill...
...need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to be appealed directly to the Supreme Court without going through a Circuit Court...