Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civic Washington's greatest problems is starlings, small insectivorous birds first brought to the U. S. in 1890 from England to combat sparrows. One Civil Works relief project during the past two months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged...
Same day in Canada, where seizure of private property is repugnant to every Methodist fibre of rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the project of reducing the gold content of the Canadian dollar-without confiscation-became an active issue in the Dominion Press. Usually well posted, Toronto's Globe said that Premier Bennett was expected shortly to ask Parliament to devalue the Canadian dollar...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first swaddled, Japan's present Finance Minister was already approaching middle age. Today a tottering but keen-witted patriarch, Mr. Korekiyo Takahashi was the first statesman of world prominence to seize last week on President Roosevelt's devaluation project as a basis for local action...
...Atlantic seaboard Senators came out against ratification because tonnage would be diverted from their ports. For President Roosevelt, most painful disaffection of all was that of the two erstwhile loyal Senators from his home State, Messrs. Copeland and Wagner. Each was in favor of the power project section of the treaty, fondly fostered by Mr. Roosevelt when New York's Governor. But they remembered that New York has its own small Lakes-to-Atlantic waterway...
Eaten, under the official title of tax investigator, will promote the creation of a Central Bank for Canada. Such an idea has already been approved by a royal commission and the project comes up before the house this session...