Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cost. For fiscal 1936 $98,400,000 will start the Social Security project. In succeeding years the Federal cost of pensions and insurance benefits will jump the total to $217,500,000. Theoretically this sum will gradually decrease as the aged get annuities that have been paid for instead of pensions for being destitute...
...Acquisition by purchase or by power of eminent domain of any real property to effectuate the new project...
Last fortnight Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who is also PWAdministrator and Petroleum Administrator, issued an order to the effect that no man could serve both as a city official and as an administrator of a PWA project within that city. If he tried to, PWA would shut off funds for the project involved. Immediately obvious was it that the PWAdministrator could have saved time by announcing that the Triborough Bridge Authority would get no more Federal money until Robert Moses resigned from it or from his job as City Park Commissioner. Apparently no one else in the land...
...seems that a certain Mass Congressmen is going to introduce a bill into the House which will make all organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
...H.A.A. officials and caused them to refuse to build two rinks for Inter-House hockey teams. To support their action it was announced to a meeting of house captains yesterday that the H.A.A. cannot afford to spend the necessary two or three hundred men were sufficiently interested in the project to register in their respective houses for practice sessions...