Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than to get $1,000 to teach hobbies to CCC boys. . . . At the present time there...
Representative C. (for Charles) Jasper Bell of Kansas City made the chief argument for the investigation. Said he: "The late years of depression . . . have been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
PWAP was succeeded by three other alphabetical arrangements for the relief of artists. Their main object has been the mural decoration of public buildings completed under the New Deal throughout the land. As part of the vast WPA appropriation, Director Holger Cahill, who was once on the staff of the Newark Museum, got $3,000,000 with which to employ about 5,000 artists, 90% of whom must be on relief rolls, at wages of from $69 to $105 a month. Simultaneously the Treasury Department quietly set up the first permanent Federal art department in the Section of Painting & Sculpture...
...days, to prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours...
...Modern Times". True, it is all about factory workers, strikes, red demonstrations, public hospitals, and jails. But if you remember that you are watching lowly-born moderns struggling through today's sea of sorrows, while Mr. Chaplin is doing his level best to scatter your attention over a vast series of ingenious gags, you can also study the differential calculus in the proverbial boiler-factory...