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...University budget is concerned, practically all of the money to be distributed under the plan could just as well be administered as outright aid or in return for a smaller amount of work. The work assigned to the students employed, while sometimes highly useful, is in few cases necessary in the sense that if students did not do it, someone else would have to be hired. The only reason advanced for requiring long hours of work is that the administration of the fund as aid would have a demoralizing effect on the student body as a whole. If money...
...county elders PWA's offering came as a shock. Their contracts permitted PWA to sell the bonds, but every municipal and county official had hoped against hope that these securities, which represented 70% of the cost of local projects, would eventually lapse to a par with the 30% outright grant. Bond Dealer Ickes, however, was dead set on turning over his inventory so he could buy more bonds, make more work...
...Manhattan a complete statement of his returns from the air industry, at the same time pointing out that he had sent the identical information to the Senate investigating committee last month soon after it turned evidence of the $250,000 "gift." Never, declared Col. Lindbergh, had he received an outright gift from any aviation company...
...should be greatly expanded, especially in the direction of re-housing the quarter of our population who now live in slums and shacks; that CWA should be reduced to the dimensions of the useful work done under it and that for those who cannot then be immediately employed an outright unemployment allowance be granted until such time as a proper system of unemployment insurance can be set up. This last is less destructive of morale than hastily improvised made work under...
...stand long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. . . . The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. ... Let it for once be said outright, though it is a slap in the face for the vulgarity of the age: property is not a vice, but a gift, and a gift such as few possess. . . . Liberty has always been the liberty of those who wish to obtain the power, not to abolish it. ... Christian theology is the grandmother...