Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generations, Rivers & Harbors appropriations have been prize political pork. Last week the House added $50,000,000 for flood control and navigation improvements to a $225,000,000 measure reported by the Appropriations Committee, excusing itself on the ground that this money would be deducted from the next Relief Bill...
...committee which is looking into WPA's past before appropriating for its 1940 future.* To the mayors' debt-ridden cities, WPA is a fairy godmother and they are her loyal courtiers. All the mayors were unanimous that: 1) WPA must go on, 2) work relief must not be returned to the States & municipalities, 3) WPA has done a great job of permanent value. This year there was a sober note in their pleas...
...grew pungent also about turning relief back to the States: "I wouldn't want any Governor handling my funds, even if I were a Governor. It's too political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city budget balances, added that he wished for a pay-as-you-go WPA, financed by taxes, not bond issues! "Let me tell you, as an American citizen, it worries me, this going deeper and deeper into debt...
Brackett has turned in two neat relief jobs and seems just about ready for an important assignment. He saved both the Northeastern and B. U. games when the starting flingers failed to go the route. HARVARD PENN Jones, 2b. 2b., Diven Hoye, c.f. r.f., Baffetto Grondahl, 3b. l.f., McDonald Lupien, 1b. 3b., Trexler Lovett, l.f. c.f., Reagan Tully, r.f. 1b., Ogden Fulton, c. c., Morris Keyes, s.s. s.s., Koopsell, Healey, p. p., Caputo
Slim Curtiss set them down 9 to 4 earlier in the season at Philadelphia, and today Slim will be ready to step in if Healey needs relief. It is more probable, however, that he will be saved for duty against the powerful Holy Cross Crusaders tomorrow. And then there is a rapidly improving Charley Brackett to consider...