Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy-mannered young man who combed America for the San Francisco Fair's big show of contemporary paintings (TIME, March 6). Roland McKinney has great repute among museum directors because of his work at the Baltimore Museum from 1929 to October 1937. A strong believer in the Federal Art Project, he thinks "we are about ready to go over the top toward something approaching the high Renaissance...
...Paso County, Colo., a rancher appealed for protection from a WPA project to build one of 22,000 outdoor toilets on his place. Answered the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: it had no jurisdiction. Reason: outdoor privies are not public utilities...
...profession. Last week Cleveland newspapermen were choosing up sides over such a question of ethics. Reporter Julian Griffin of the Press, substituting on the City Hall beat, had become annoyed by the constant presence in the reporters' room of one Joe Graham, WPA supervisor of a map rehabilitation project and onetime reporter for the News. So Reporter Griffin took a picture of Joe Graham at work (see cut) and wrote a story to go with it in the Press. Excerpts...
...young lady, his secretary, I am told. . . . The young lady departs and Joe produces a safety razor and shaves himself. After that he is ready to peruse his newspaper. Sometimes he goes for a stroll about the building . . . maybe even going so far as to visit his project. ... In the afternoon he may bring in a book and read awhile until he is ready to stretch out on the bench and take a nap. . . . 'My only comment,' he said, 'would be to hell with whoever woke...
Before the week's end it appeared that even Wendell Willkie was convinced the TVA war was over, that there was still Lebensraum for Commonwealth & Southern's operating chain in ten States. Its Alabama Power Co. announced a project which Wendell Willkie would never have dared to try while the TVA fight was on: a $4,000,000 steam power plant in Mobile. At the same time C. & S. announced that $12,000,000 more would be spent later in plant expansions in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. A day later came another proof that Dave Lilienthal...