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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad B. A.," degree, both sides of which have their exponents. But brilliant National Scholarship men are seldom likely to excel in a variety of fields; they tend to have one specific objective. Hence they prefer specialized training, which throws their weight into the "concentrated" side of the scale...
...Downey knows all this and since getting nominated has backed away from "Ham & Eggs" as gracefully as possible. The scheme, he says, is a local effort to solve the "senior citizen" problem to which, if he gets to the Senate, he will bend his best talents on a national scale. He will vote for it, he says, "as a Californian," but he has made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt who has condemned "Ham & Eggs" in no uncertain terms...
Most of Chicago's subway schemes have proposed leveling the elevated loop and the uneven scale of property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June...
...display, are designs for a large bus terminal in Park Square, Boston; for the development of a shopping center, parking garage, and bus and subway terminals in Brattle Square, Cambridge; for a beachside community development at Cohasset, Mass.; for a new school in Lincoln, Mass.; and for a large scale housing project for workers in the $2,000 income bracket...
...slum prevention. Said Fred W. Catlett of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "Home owners with expanding incomes and growing families are continually deserting old, established neighborhoods and moving farther and farther from the downtown business areas. The older inhabitants are replaced by those living on a lower economic scale. Rents decrease, values fall and houses are allowed to deteriorate because the income will not support proper expenditures for repair." In an attempt to counteract this, FHLBB, its subsidiary, Home Owners' Loan Corp., and the U.S. Housing Authority announced that they had chosen the old Waverly Village section...