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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when President Roosevelt signed away $250,000,000 more for relief, WPA had become just about the grimmest thing in the country. The new appropriation will be spent before June 30, bringing the relief expenditures for the fiscal year of 1938 to $1,750,000,000. Most of the additional funds will pay the wages of 500,000 more relief workers. This spring, the total on the WPAyroll will be 2,500,000-the highest in two years with the exception of a single week during the 1936 drought...
...Hindenburg Country." They urged embarrassed War Ministry officials to do something about 30 East Prussian pastors in jail or concentration camps. "We want to render every possible service to the Führer-in peace time as farmers and in war time as soldiers-but there is one thing that must not be taken from us!" declared the farmers' spokesman. "We must be able to serve Our Lord, Jesus Christ, faithfully...
Last week, after hoping against hope to see Seabiscuit and War Admiral run on the same turf at the same time, the horse racing world was treated to the next best thing. On the same day, in the two top-ranking races of the winter season (the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap and the $50,000 WIdener Challenge Cup), Seabiscuit was entered against the best horses running in California and War Admiral was entered against the best in Florida. Both, of course, were favorites...
...When Johnny Macionis came out I knew everything was all right. He stood there just as steady as ever and waited for the end of the pool to come around. But just as he was about to dive in the darn thing come hit and up him and all the big apples swum right into the Bromo Seltzers in blue bathing suits and the empty bottles went round and round...
...short, the means are often taken for the aim, the sign for the thing represented. Thus Professor Lake's comments seem both familiar and well founded, and I cannot help wondering why the Crimson makes these remarks of Professor Lake's an occasion for criticizing a great and humane scholar...