Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only Representative to say Nay among 361 voting on this measure was California's tousle-headed John Martin Costello, 36. † Last month the New York Legislature (Republicans) made a lump cut of $30,000,000 (about 10%) applicable throughout the Budget submitted by Governor Lehman, who last week, on the advice of his Attorney General, decided to let the measure become law, test its constitutionality in court...
...some $15,000-one-quarter the duties & penalties assessed by the U. S. The U. S. Attorney's office refused to identify Mary, but said she was not the accused's maid, as was the case in the arrest of Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of a New York Supreme Court judge, who went into detention for a three-month term last month. Mrs. Lauer's maid got about $10,000 for informing...
...most people this seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived...
...World's Fair which, still unfinished last week, was a focus of embarrassment for the Works Progress Administration, whose show at the Fair it is. Representative Woodrum's committee to investigate WPA before voting its 1940 money (TIME, April 20, et seq.), sent to New York City two Treasury engineers to look into the costs and efficiency of WPA projects compared to private projects. The Treasury's men made clear that WPA's monument to itself is a monument also to expense...
...Treasury men found, after examining other projects in WPA's New York City area, that WPA costs were, as a rule, two and one-half times private costs. To all of this, New York City's WPAdministrator, Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, D.S.C., a 47-year-old West Pointer from Arkansas, replied: "Everybody in town knows that the WPA is doing a pretty good...