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Housing heads get together. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Attending the Annual Conference of Mayors today, were left to right: Mayor La Guardia of New York, Nathan Straus, of the United States Housing Authority; and Langdon Post, Chairman of the New York Housing Authority, who spoke on slum clearance and low cost housing. 111737

Housing heads at White House conference Washington D.C., July 14. At the White House yesterday President Roosevelt announced that the government was going to study the possibility of forming limited dividend corporations on the same theory as building and loan associations which would construct apartments for people who rent instead of purchase. Left to right: Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Statistics Dept. of Labor, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and Stewart McDonald Federal Housing Administrator, 71437

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Meeting of New York's mayor and housing administrator ends in love feast. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. What promised to be a red-hot meeting between U.S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (left) and New York Mayor Fiorella La Guardia took the form of a love feast before the confab ended. Straus said he had always considered Mayor La Guardia the best New York had had in his memory. While he noted New York's Housing Authority was starting two weeks late because it had not sent representatives to exploratory conferences, Administrator Straus promised La Guardia that they would receive the "same prompt consideration" of low cost housing project as any other community. 12/1/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11337

Housing heads at White House conference Washington D.C., July 14. At the White House yesterday President Roosevelt announced that the government was going to study the possibility of forming limited dividend corporations on the same theory as building and loan associations which would construct apartments for people who rent instead of purchase. Left to right: Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Statistics Dept. of Labor, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and Stewart McDonald Federal Housing Administrator, 7/14/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11337

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11337

Housing heads get together. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Attending the Annual Conference of Mayors today, were left to right: Mayor La Guardia of New York, Nathan Straus, of the United States Housing Authority; and Langdon Post, Chairman of the New York Housing Authority, who spoke on slum clearance and low cost housing. 11/17/37

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New York Mayor confers with new WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City conferred today with Col. F.C. Harrington, new Works Progress Administrator. Following the meeting, Mayor Laguardia sharply criticized the plan for establishing bi-partisan boards to handle works progress complaints, 12/29/38

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