Word: cartwright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.), is a small, co-educational college, until recently distinguished chiefly for its football teams. Two years ago Bucknell, which, like every other college, craves a money raiser as its president, made a remarkable capture. As acting president it acquired slim, square-jawed Arnaud Cartwright Marts, a graduate of Oberlin College. Arnaud Marts had raised $1,000,000 for Bucknell in his spare time. All told he had pried from philanthropists no less than $200,000,000 for colleges, hospitals, religious institutions...
...earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much more than he had asked for his drought control. Only Oklahoma's Wilburn Cartwright, who wanted his pork in the form of road construction, was still fighting for his amendment...
...plaint was not its size but its blanket appropriation of one and a half billions to be spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors...
...will be placed at one of the stations on the coast, probably at Cartwright. The other will spend the summer as a seaman on the mission schooner "George B. Cluett," which carries the volunteer workers from Portland to Labrador and then spends the rest of the summer distributing the supplies for the winter to the various stations on the coast from Saint Anthony, Newfoundland, the mission base...
...selected to work at Cartwright will work on the construction of new buildings with five other college men. The work comprises a good deal of hard physical labor but it is interesting and a man who is writing a thesis in sociology will find a wealth of material in Labrador...