Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. To be sure members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization of the present campaign will make possible a more truly representative showing for Harvard, especially if the larger givers will divert their contributions to this channel...
...insisted that Recovery was the reason for the sharp decline in WPA rolls since November's elections, and thereby gave them an argument against a big new WPA fund. Meanwhile, Senators studied a report by a special committee under South Carolina's Byrnes which, if translated into law, would effectively wreck WPA as a permanent, billion-dollar political machine...
...voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind on its tail, crashed into jagged pieces, burned to ghastly junk...
...Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program, $6 for the first rehearsal hour and $3 for each half-hour thereafter, put the case before its entire membership...
Last year 6,000,000 U. S. residents took out fishing licenses. Probably twice that number went fishing. They spent more than $10,000,000 on tackle alone* (twice the amount they spent in 1933). Major reason for the current spurt is a vogue for deep-sea angling, increasingly popular in the past five years since it has been dramatized in newsreels and publicized by fishermen like Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...