Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the New Deal came in, there have been three stages of relief. In the first stage (1933-34), Harold Ickes was the big fish with $3,300,000,000 to spend and lend for public works, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was a small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry...
Further, there are many students who do not derive any benefit from their tutorial and only waste the time of their tutors. Such men are not interested in doing any research on their own outside of their courses and have no intellectual curiosity. They would do better to spend the time thus wasted on course work. That the number of these men is great is evidenced by comments from concentrators when meeting at the Crimson last month...
...session's second major measure-the $2,364,229,712.53 First Deficiency Bill-was reported out by the House Appropriations Committee last week, even the simplest-minded Congressman knew what it meant. It meant that WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins was going to get $1,425,000,000 to spend on relief in fiscal 1937 in just the way he will have spent about $1,600,000,000 this fiscal year. When the bill was brought to the floor, not more than 50 Representatives appeared to discuss...
...books and countless heads with his brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since...
...gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution was just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend his days in a library, spinning out his gigantic web of theory, Engels lived a more normally diversified life. He hunted with the English landowners he despised, just for the exercise. He rushed off to join the dud German revolution...