Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waste no effort on it." "We are certainly going to lose that State-ignore it." "Now here's a doubtful State that may be won or lost!" To Boss Farley who directs the flow of campaign funds, to the President who has a speech to make, a WPA project to announce, such advice is invaluable...
...Manhattan the sedate Architectural League last week awarded its annual gold medal for decorative painting to another Federal project, a huge fresco in the Evander Childs High School by square-jawed young James Michael Newell. It was similar in subject to the San Francisco mural but better drawn...
President Roosevelt favored the idea, referred it promptly to the Treasury. From this letter grew the first organization to assist unemployed artists, the Public Works of Art Project. Its guiding spirit was not George Biddle but his good friend Painter Edward Bruce, onetime San Francisco banker (TIME, July 17, 1933). Many murals were started under PWAP, but for the most part artists were told to go home and paint what they liked in their own studios. PWAP lasted about six months, cost the Government $1,312,177, produced 15,663 works of art, ended with a gigantic exhibition in Washington...
...matter of fact, whether or not such protective measures as the proposed administrative corps project involves are provided to those trained college graduates who enter America's public service, I stand squarely behind the belief that a brilliant opportunity for service and achievement lies ahead for the trained college graduate of 1936 who accepts the interesting opportunities today afforded by the public service. Regardless of the protection of Civil Service or other efforts to combat spoils system practices, such young men are in demand not only in government, but also in public organizations (such as the growing number of associations...
...such a project that Harvard should undertake now, repairing in this way the financial and moral rebuke suffered by those alumni who sincerely desired to see a broader educational program offered to the students of their University. A Drama Department, offering training in all branches of the theatre, should be under the direction of an experienced and practical man of the theatre. Such a man is John Mason Brown. Under his direction, Harvard would once more rise to the place at the head she enjoyed under Professor Baker, and no longer would any such unfortunate and not-to-be-repeated...