Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PWAP was succeeded by three other alphabetical arrangements for the relief of artists. Their main object has been the mural decoration of public buildings completed under the New Deal throughout the land. As part of the vast WPA appropriation, Director Holger Cahill, who was once on the staff of the Newark Museum, got $3,000,000 with which to employ about 5,000 artists, 90% of whom must be on relief rolls, at wages of from $69 to $105 a month. Simultaneously the Treasury Department quietly set up the first permanent Federal art department in the Section of Painting & Sculpture...
...Nothing quite like this body has ever been observed before", said Dr. Shapley, "but since such objects can be seen only when they are very near the earth and when conditions are particularly right, we cannot say but what this sort of object may be common in the solar system...
...good enough observations have been obtained it may be possible that a sufficiently accurate orbit can be computed so that in some later year, when the object is again very near the earth, it can be picked up by astronomers. However, perturbations may make this impossible...
...Eventually the object may be thrown into a longer orbit, with a long period, or even ejected from the planetary system. The chance that it will actually collide with one of the planets is, of course, very remote, although eventually it might happen...
Last week we suggested a counter proposal to the Bingham plan for abrogating the present Big Three agreement in favor of four full weeks of pre-season practice. This counter proposal stated that if the "object of Mr. Bingham's report is, for conditioning reasons, to climinate the rigidity of the September 15 date in relation to the vacillating nature of the usual opening of the football season, it seems to us that this might be accomplished through setting the deadline for the beginning of pre-season training at a date three weeks before the first Saturday in October...