Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain backing for his tide-harnessing project, to win the consent of Canada and the state of Maine. Then one day in 1933 he explained his plan all over again to Franklin Roosevelt. The President, still enthusiastic, was now able to be of real help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt wrote Democratic Governor Brann of Maine that the Federal Government...
...brought back for questioning. Superintendent Schwarzkopf announced that purported representatives of the Governor had tampered with his State troopers, tried to make them admit that Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged after several hours to announce that the expert doubted whether "Rail 16" in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder had actually come from the carpenter's attic. "Nonsensical!" cried Attorney General Wilentz. '"Outrageous...
...enhancing public buildings is highly commendable, cannot someone with more taste and understanding supervise the process? Too much bad painting is as unfortunate as no painting at all. Good murals come high and Washington feels that Mechau's Dangers of the Mail ''has justified the entire PWA program." While it is merely a sketch and some detail is nice, it does not hold together, the centre is a confusing mass, it has no mural quality and is devoid of any feeling. I would suggest Mr. Mechau make less trips to the garbage can. As to Kenneth Adams...
...money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than...
...School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...