Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Justice Butler read a decision Mr. Van Devanter leaned over and whispered to Chief Justice Hughes. In 20 minutes a few decisions of little public interest had been read, Court orders issued providing for hearing next autumn of cases challenging PWA's loans to establish municipal power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose...
...proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries at last over, the builders faced what Joe Strauss called "the most diffi cult engineering feat ever tackled." Three years of construction overcame this obstacle...
...from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason the PWA refused to aid the builders. Dr. Willis was presently overwhelmed by numbers in the row over the Bridge and is currently saying nothing on a question which only a major earthquake can definitely settle. Last week, when practically everybody else journeyed to San Francisco for a week's fiesta...
...held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another of national concern: the upward spiral of commodity prices. He was visited by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, spokesman for other U. S. mayors, who protested a new PWA rule which requires all of the Federal grants for Public Works projects to be spent on relief labor. This was followed by a visit from a delegation of the House of Representatives who wanted to appropriate $300,000,000 more for PWA, which now has only $155,000,000 left to spend. To both, Franklin Roosevelt answered...
...press conference next day he delivered what he called an economic dissertation to explain why he was in favor of tapering off PWA activities...