Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the strays drifted back into the corral. When the vote came, the move for bigger exemptions went down, 210 to 204. Every G.O.P. Representative was either present or paired-a rare occurrence in the House-and only ten of them stood up with the Democrats. Under the spur of Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, the Democrats' showing was just as impressive: a mere nine Democrats, four of them Rayburn's fellow Texans, sided with the Republicans, and only six were not recorded at all. Not in years had party lines held so firmly on a legislative...
...life." Roy's father, Albert Cohn, is a judge in the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court, a onetime protege of the late Boss Ed Flynn, and a power in the Democratic Party. In his teens, Roy would amaze his friends by putting in a spur-of-the-moment telephone call to the mayor's office and talking briefly to "Bill" (O'Dwyer). Once, when Roy was invited to go along on an excursion supervised by the father of one of his chums, the father got a telephone call from Roy's mother...
Acceptance of the new plan is all-dependent on the construction of a new hygiene plant, for Blue Cross officials will not insure the University with its present facilities. Such a health center has always been advisable; now, with the spur of the added benefits of Blue Cross, it becomes a necessity. A new theatre and increased housing facilities are, of course, also urgent needs. But the funds for the three constructions will no doubt come from very different sources. Health needs never present quite the same problems in raising money which plague other areas in the University; the history...
...dark days of the Depression, the New Deal tried out a plan to help the housing industry. With a $1,000,000 advance from the Treasury, the Government set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure loans for housebuilding and repair, thus spur the building industry. The experiment was a noble success. FHA's first insurance was on a loan for $125 to paint a house, repair the roof and install a water tank. Since then, the agency has insured mortgages on 3,940,000 housing units, and has made a total of 16 million loans for property improvement...
After an intensive last-minute publicity campaign to spur campus interest in Radcliffe's coming Council elections, Sally Huntington '56, electoral chairman, yesterday announced the slate of nominees for next year's Council offices. The elections are scheduled for March 10th and 11th...