Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uppermost in the minds of David Lasser, Pinky Harrington and Congress is the fact that WPA's appropriation of $1,425,000,000 will be spent by February 7 (3 weeks ahead of schedule). The inevitable request for a deficiency appropriation to carry Relief until June 30 will give the 76th Congress its first big battle, give WPA's critics their chance to try for amendments to end Relief-in-politics, to cancel the blank-check system of allotting funds to the Administration...
...were not yet 16 included one scholarship recipient and composed .62 percent of the class. Forty three were under 17, 4.48 percent of the entire aggregation. These 17 years old totaled 337 (35.14 per cent), while the 18-year-olds figured uppermost with a count of 442 and percentage...
...bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar flood in 1935, got both PWAdministrator Ickes and the State...
...offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
...usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind, he said, was his favorite period- the French 18th Century - and particularly two paintings by François Boucher, who, had he lived two centuries later, would have made a fortune painting dimpled ladies for the covers of sentimental magazines. The Philadelphia Artists' Union...