Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor Walter Tripp's brother has succeeded him in office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor...
...administrative bills WPA had contributed $75,900, PWA...
...defeat Senator George in 1938. Mr. Camp averred, with a convincing air, that he was not the informer. Gossiping Crackers then remembered that their Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers has at least two unremitting foes: 1) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, whom the Governor recently outsmarted in a PWA hospital deal; 2) clever, eerie-eyed Gene Talmadge, who is still up & doing in retirement at McRae, Ga. Governor Rivers and Uncle George get along all right...
...Nevada's President Leon W. Hartman. It also carried a column ("Church Bells") by Sponsor Thomas. Biggest scoop was a poll of Reno High School students. Results: 93% condemned Russia in Finland; 73% opposed U. S. entry into World War II; 75% opposed upping taxes for WPA, CCC, PWA; 76% favored compulsory military training in CCC; 83% believed something was gained by going to church; 65% had decided on what jobs they would like; consensus was that boys should marry at 21 to 25, girls...
Having moved his troops in, Governor Phillips did go to court, got a temporary injunction against the dam's completion. If the court makes his injunction permanent, said he, he will withdraw his soldiers. If not, he "will keep the troops on hand until the PWA puts the money on the line...