Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uppermost in the minds of David Lasser, Pinky Harrington and Congress is the fact that WPA's appropriation of $1,425,000,000 will be spent by February 7 (3 weeks ahead of schedule). The inevitable request for a deficiency appropriation to carry Relief until June 30 will give the 76th Congress its first big battle, give WPA's critics their chance to try for amendments to end Relief-in-politics, to cancel the blank-check system of allotting funds to the Administration...
...said Harry Hopkins one day last week after a Cabinet meeting which, though no member, he had attended as usual by Presidential request. When Reorganization failed last spring with it died Harry Hopkins' dream of becoming the first Secretary of Welfare. Now, for weeks, Washington wiseacres had been saying Secretary Roper of Commerce would be let out to make room for Friend Hopkins, with twofold purpose: to take him out of the Congressional barrage soon to fall upon his WPA; to throw him into contact with businessmen and build him up as 1940 Presidential timber...
...largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov's assistant...
Tending to support Mr. Hazelett's ideas last week was a survey made by the Tax Research Institute of America at the request of the Senate committee. Sample findings: 82½% of firms questioned would expand if tax laws provided deductions or credits for expansion; such expansion would cause 74% of these firms to increase employment...
...machine, has a special attachment for gramophones so that one man can listen at any time without disturbing anyone. Except for Tuesday, there are regular listening hours every afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock, at which time the program is arranged by request...