Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaped building at the World's Fair which, still unfinished last week, was a focus of embarrassment for the Works Progress Administration, whose show at the Fair it is. Representative Woodrum's committee to investigate WPA before voting its 1940 money (TIME, April 20, et seq.), sent to New York City two Treasury engineers to look into the costs and efficiency of WPA projects compared to private projects. The Treasury's men made clear that WPA's monument to itself is a monument also to expense...
Today the process of adoption is no secret. In every State numerous orphan asylums, private or State agencies have adoption services. Most famed haven is The Cradle at Evanston, Ill., which has sent children to Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, George Burns and Grade Allen, Miriam Hopkins, Joe E. Brown...
...children are given thorough physical and mental tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...
Forty-six hours later Wilson Burgess signed off. In that time he had sent more than 900 messages, calls for rescue boats, Red Cross communications for medicine, food, doctors and nurses; orders from local undertakers for coffins; advice to boil water; warnings to looters; instructions to rescue pilots; news details of the hurricane that killed 136 people in the Westerly and nearby beach areas before it swept on up through New England...
...Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...