Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President asked Congress to extend the expiring Reciprocal Trade Act; Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee popped up with a new neutrality bill; hard-headed Walter Runciman, proprietor of the Isle of Eigg and president of the British Board of Trade, arrived with his wife to spend the week-end-quite unofficially-at the White House. These last three events were enough to cost Franklin Roosevelt a full week's cogitation. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act has been the New Deal's biggest project in foreign affairs: to break down the forces that make peace impossible...
...gain an idea of what their pastoral duties will be like, U. S. theological students spend much of their spare time doing welfare work, practising preaching in missions, doing pious chores for ministers. But for men of God there exists no compulsory interneship comparable to that fulfilled by men of medicine. Last week, simultaneously with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans...
...bank to finance it. This week, according to Sponsor Lamb's plans, the test actually began, A 63-year-old idle orchard worker chosen by popular vote at a Townsend dance last week, was given $200 of Sponsor Lamb's fund which he had to spend in Chelan within 30 days. Each dollar was identified as a "Townsend Test Dollar" by a slip of paper pasted to it. Each Chelanite who gets possession of any of the bills during the period will put his signature and the date on the slips before he passes them on. He will...
These awards, not to exceed six in number, have been granted since the fall of 1935. The schedule usually followed is to spend the first year at Harvard in preliminary research and study, the second in field work or a public interneship, and the third, again at Harvard in order to integrate the theory and practice of public service. Applicants for the fellowships must have a B.A. degree or its equivalent...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...