Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month publication of the Maine and Vermont guides meant that four of the New England States* had been covered. This month, guides to Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mississippi, North & South Dakota are scheduled for publication. In February the Writers' Project will wind up New England with guides to New Hampshire and Connecticut and will publish its first big highway tour, U. S. 1, tracing the 2,000-mile road mile by mile, landmark by landmark, from Calais, Me. to Key West, Fla. Some time in the spring the Project will release Whaling Masters in Massachusetts...
...Federal Writers' Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started...
While State offices were being set up, many a veteran Greenwich Villager hotfooted it to Washington, started work in the gaudy Evelyn Walsh McLean mansion, where the Project's temporary offices were established. Although administrative work was handled by professionals like Alsberg's assistant, Reed Harris, or his chief editor, Biographer Edward Barrows (Great Commodore), or Architect Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people...
Nine months after the Project got under way there were 6,000 on the payroll. Now there are 3,000, of whom 1,200 are writers as distinguished from research workers, office assistants. They receive prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere. Now so highly organized that its officials boast that in a week it can gather the material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused...
...literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more...