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Five acres of soil with each house will enable Homesteaders to raise their own food, sell a surplus. For house & garden they will pay the Government $15-$20 a month for 20 years, payments to begin two years after occupancy. To construct and equip a factory in Reedsville to make furniture and other things for the Post Office Department $525,000 of PWA funds were allotted last October by Secretary Ickes. Construction of the building will provide some 2.000 man-months of labor for Homesteaders, and on completion the plant will give permanent employment to some 150.* Eventually the Government...
Back in Washington, President Roosevelt sent to Congress his long-delayed message on housing: "May I," he asked, "draw your attention to some important suggestions for legislation which should tend to improve conditions for those who live in houses, those who repair and construct houses, and those who invest in houses...
...been attempting to build up the Harvard Liberal Club, wish to express our personal disgust with the bombastic activities and repulsive tactics of the National Student League. We believe that the actions of this radical group will do much to break down all we have done in helping to construct an organization wherein, by free discussion of radical, liberal, and conservative thought, a rational opinion concerning present-day problems Independent undergraduate investigation of political, social, and economic problems, so necessary today, has been discouraged by this organization whose every activity strengthens an illiberal and unreasoning opposition...
Legend hath it that in the days long since departed, one noble resident of Hollis Hall received executive permission to tother his favorite cow on sacred ground not far from his corner room. And, indeed, this could hardly be construct as strange when our renowned historians tell us that, all gossip to the contrary, Harvard's Yard, long criticized for its snobbish and aristocratic name, was once just what that name did mean. For in the days of much Latin and little English, all gootle and healthie colleges did have a central plotted upon which fed the domestic servants...
Everybody agreed that since it was financially impossible to construct the line from Craig straight through to Salt Lake (346 mi.), the next best thing was to build a short line which would connect with the parent Denver & Rio Grande, which does run to Salt Lake. It would save Denver & Rio Grande 173 mi. between the two cities. But neither parent nor child was rich and government aid was not obtained until...