Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds for crop loans. Further to avoid charges of lax spending, the President privately passed word to his friends, Senator Wagner who has a $200,000,000 housing project and Senator Norris who has a $100,000,000 yearly electric power plan, that their money demands must be reduced...
...this were an isolated case, we should merely have to reprove the Senate for letting the executive exceed his authority. But there are other examples of this kind of forced appropriation, and the appropriating power of Congress is in grave danger. Roosevelt plays the same game with the Passamaquoddy project, the Gila Dam, and the Florida ship canal. It is quite clear that Congress is expected to finish whatever the President begins, regardless of whether or not it was worth while in the first place...
...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, which is not a relief project at all. Its jury may commission artists, no matter what their state of affluence, to decorate public buildings on the strength of anonymously contributed sketches...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
Last August, Works Progress Administration put Mrs. Hallie Flanagan of the Vassar Experimental Theatre in charge of its new Federal Theatre Project, whose aim was to employ idle stage folk "in the profession for which they have been trained." Since then FTP has made 9,000 jobs, put on circuses, marionette shows, vaudeville programs, revivals of the classics at high schools, playgrounds, Y. M. C. A.'s from Springfield, Mass, to San Diego, Calif. In show business only seven months, the U. S. Government last week reached the goal of all theatrical enterprises: Broadway...