Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then presented the bas-relief bust to President Conant on behalf of the Class of 1937. Mr. Pennypacker's little granddaughter, Nancy, unveiled the tablet...
...Assistant Postmaster General until he was appointed to the Senate three years ago. Mr. Burke mentioned that "within the past two hours a very responsible official of this Government" had told him that the President would soon ask for a billion or a billion and a half dollars for Relief. "He asked." said Mr. Burke, "if I did not realize the futility of trying to fight against $1,500,000,000." Name the official, then," cried Senator O'Mahoney. "If that statement was made for the purpose of influencing the Senator's attitude, the name ought...
...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...
Died, Talcott Williams Powell, 36, tenacious newshawk whose Veteran Relief series won the New York World-Telegram a 1932 Pulitzer Award, explorer, onetime (1933~35) editor of the Indianapolis Times; after an appendectomy; in Greenwich, Conn...
President Lowell, who will speak briefly at the ceremonies, is the author of the following inscription, above which is a bas-relief bust of Mr. Pennypacker...