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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Economic Dissertation | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...press conference next day he delivered what he called an economic dissertation to explain why he was in favor of tapering off PWA activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Economic Dissertation | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Rubye Louise Nix Zioncheck, 21, onetime PWA typist, widow of Seattle's late eccentric Representative Marion Zioncheck, entered the University of Washington Home Economics School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Nebraskans are quite willing to turn down George Norris' ideas upon occasion. Only last month, McCook held an election to decide whether to accept a PWA offer of $105,000, 45% of the cost of bringing in electricity from the Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: R. F. D. to F. D. R. | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Negroes is a collection of buildings grouped around a grassy campus on the northwest outskirts of Washington, D. C. Howard University has many white friends as well: the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were to a man out on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bison Strike | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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