Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That this will be a news account of the future was announced last week by Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams in a letter to Florida's Representative J. Mark Wilcox, promising $300,000 of WPA funds for the immediate erection of nine storm barracks. During the slack hurricane season, he said, the shelters will be the scene of teaching operations, church sociables...
Delighted, therefore, was Senator Smith last week when Louis Brooks, a member of the New York Cotton Exchange and onetime member of its business conduct committee, uprose at Washington hearings to storm: "The wrong committee is investigating this situation. It ought to be . . . the Department of Justice...
...early days of the New Deal Jesse Holman Jones had to storm the stubborn walls of U. S. banking to get anyone to take money from his RFC. Bankers who really needed Government money were scared to take it because of the onus attached to RFC loans. Those in a sounder position could not find use even for the money they already had. Upshot was that Mr. Jones finally persuaded big super-solvent institutions to sell him notes or preferred stock as a patriotic gesture, thereby setting an example for smaller banks to follow. One of the first...
...SPRING STORM-Alvin Johnson-Knopf...
Last February onetime Professor George Santayana, 72, published his first novel (The Last Puritan-TIME, Feb. 3). Last week onetime Professor Alvin Johnson, 61, followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...