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More impressive than any Labor demonstration was a report addressed to all Congressmen this week by the U. S. Conference of Mayors. These gentlemen declared that if Congress does not rescind its requirement that localities contribute 25% of WPA project costs, the WPA money voted by Congress for this year will be "so far as many cities are concerned but an idle gesture." Alternatives, they said, were a further appropriation, or amendment of the clause requiring money so far voted to last twelve months. The mayors used alarming words like "wreck," "collapse," "destruction." Their most piteous alarm: "The nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: System Wrecked? | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...fiscal year began last week, Reorganization took effect and PWA merged with WPA, which now means Works Projects Administration. A last act of Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Warner Bros, promptly appealed the ban - as surprising to the Hays office, which had already approved the picture, as it was to its producers-to the State Board of Regents, which has power to rescind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Louis City Art Museum was not detached from political control until 1911, when an independent Board of Control was set up and a special property tax of 2? on every $100 of assessed value was levied for museum maintenance. A recurrent impulse of St. Louis city administrations is to rescind this tax. When the cat controversy brought up such a proposal, the present Board of Estimate & Apportionment promptly recommended a reduction of the tax to if per $100 and the reinvestment of museum control in City Hall. Last week the Board of Aldermen was petitioned to submit this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Egyptian Cat Case | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Montreal, Mar. 3 -- Last evening about 400 McGill students at a meeting of the student society decided to rescind a former motion which opened the McGill Union to an address by the Communist speaker Tim Buck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGill Union Renews Resolutions for Prohibiting Talk by Communist Buck | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

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