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...life." Roy's father, Albert Cohn, is a judge in the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court, a onetime protege of the late Boss Ed Flynn, and a power in the Democratic Party. In his teens, Roy would amaze his friends by putting in a spur-of-the-moment telephone call to the mayor's office and talking briefly to "Bill" (O'Dwyer). Once, when Roy was invited to go along on an excursion supervised by the father of one of his chums, the father got a telephone call from Roy's mother...
Acceptance of the new plan is all-dependent on the construction of a new hygiene plant, for Blue Cross officials will not insure the University with its present facilities. Such a health center has always been advisable; now, with the spur of the added benefits of Blue Cross, it becomes a necessity. A new theatre and increased housing facilities are, of course, also urgent needs. But the funds for the three constructions will no doubt come from very different sources. Health needs never present quite the same problems in raising money which plague other areas in the University; the history...
...dark days of the Depression, the New Deal tried out a plan to help the housing industry. With a $1,000,000 advance from the Treasury, the Government set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure loans for housebuilding and repair, thus spur the building industry. The experiment was a noble success. FHA's first insurance was on a loan for $125 to paint a house, repair the roof and install a water tank. Since then, the agency has insured mortgages on 3,940,000 housing units, and has made a total of 16 million loans for property improvement...
After an intensive last-minute publicity campaign to spur campus interest in Radcliffe's coming Council elections, Sally Huntington '56, electoral chairman, yesterday announced the slate of nominees for next year's Council offices. The elections are scheduled for March 10th and 11th...
...when "economic royalists" and "privileged princes" were blamed by F.D.R. for the Depression, the basic New Deal tax policy was to boost taxes in the upper brackets, keep them light on the "little man," and thus try to spur consumer spending and get the wheels of industry turning again. The Republicans think there is a better way to keep the economy healthy. Their method, said Dwight Eisenhower, is "to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to ... design new products and develop new markets." The tax program that...