Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February. Without soliciting another application for loans or gifts Administrator Ickes declared he could distribute a second three billion from the surplus supply of pleas already in his office. Observing the number of jobs made by public works, the Senate was not at all sure that this was the most practical...
Most sacred stewardship of any Congress, and especially the 73rd Congress is the country's Money. "Taxation without representation" was the cause of the above scene-the Ways & Means Committee (part of it) holding a hearing in Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman...
...Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship between 1773 and 1776, was preoccupied with affairs in Congress concerning the Revolution, and also because the statesman had a dislike for business. "A very near great man," was the judgment of the essayist as to Hancock...
Last week in Boston, Union Trust Co. filed in Suffolk County Probate Court the fourth annual accounting of its stewardship of a client's estate. The estate of $5,160 was conservatively invested in stocks & bonds of A. T. & T., Eastern Gas & Fuel, United Corp., National Dairy Products Corp. Income for last year was $352.70. Of this, $270.77 had been expended for the client's room & board, $5.60 for Massachusetts income tax. The client, last week summering in Wakefield, N. H., was a staid, elderly, nonswearing Mexican parrot, which five years ago was left a $5,000 trust...
...Nazi pressure. Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Germany's greatest press & cinema tycoon who had been Minister of Agriculture & Economics. The President yielded with extreme reluctance. Then, President & Chancellor talked deeply of the fate of German Protestantism (see below). There was no accounting of the Chancellor's stewardship, not Adolf Hitler, not Paul von Hindenburg, is now the master. The facts of 150 days of Nazi rule spoke last week loudly for themselves: Resurgence. Overlooked or minimized by many a foreign reporter in his distaste for Nazi bluster and brutality is the great German fact of RESURGENCE, the lifting...