Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...
...this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded to continue as Whip instead of withdrawing, as he had threatened to do, to introduce legislation...
After 9,000 alarmed Somalis, Arabs and Indians paraded the streets of sweltering Djibouti with banners declaring We Don't Want to Suffer the Same Fate as Ethiopia the French Navy Ministry dispatched two warships to the scene. The Colonial Ministry sent a detachment of 650 Senegalese sharpshooters from Marseille to strengthen the little Somaliland garrison of 1,500 colonials...
...alumnae. To Dr. Rainey, who is just as concerned about boys and girls who do not go to college as about those who do, his new job is attractive for another reason. Last year the university established general culture courses for "average citizens," youngsters who do not want to study for a degree. At University of Texas, "average citizens" may take any courses they like, quit after two years...
Electron Microscopes now attract much attention among scientists who want to see ever smaller & smaller things. The magnification of ordinary microscopes is limited by the wave nature of light. Some things are so small that they slip through the meshes of the light rays like BB shot through a tennis net. Instead of a beam of light the electron microscope utilizes a beam of electrons, which have wave lengths thousands of times shorter than visible light but also make impressions on photographic plates...