Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead sought a WPA grant to renovate the old city hall. Mr. Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand "economy" play. Hotly, Mr. Tobin retorted that not he, but his predecessor, had asked for the new hall. From PWA he had accepted three Boston school additions vitally needed. "The President," said Mayor Tobin, "has a task difficult enough, and should not be burdened with a Cabinet...
...hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker, the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan-not without aid from the No. 2 Mormon, First Counselor of the First Presidency Joshua Reuben Clark, an arch-Republican...
...days last week, Long Island Sound off Larchmont was as crowded as China's famed Han River at Hankow. Instead of jostling sampans, junks and tiny tugs the jostlers were Pirates, Buccaneers, Bulldogs, Snipes. It was the Larchmont Yacht Club's 40th annual Race Week, No. 1 outing for North Atlantic sailors south of Cape...
Stars. Most popular of international racing yachts, Star boats are 22 ft. long, cost around $1,500, are descended from a seafaring line of Sharpies used for gathering oysters on Long Island Sound a hundred years ago. Winner last week was Stanley Ogilvy's Jay, a boat that is likely to compete in the International championship, No. 1 event for Star boats the world over, to be held off San Diego in September...
...President Roosevelt last February published a detailed report of the nation's health prepared under the supervision of Josephine Roche who, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1934-37), formerly headed Government health activities. He also called a National Health Conference, which met last week in Washington to sound out popular opinion on an extensive Government program of medical service. Present were 175 delegates of the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, National Consumers' League, National League of Women Voters, United Mine Workers, etc. Also present were Dr. Hugh Cabot, leader of the 430 rebel doctors...