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