Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alumni gathering the committee urged the establishment of four or five scholarships for a trial period of two years, after which time, if successful, the project might be continued indefinitely through the efforts of a permanent Alumni committee...
Private patrons put up a little money at first, but Photographer Abbott landed with the Federal Art Project in 1935. A direct girl who still talks harsh Ohio, still wears a Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...been leveled to the dust since Berenice Abbott photographed it in May 1938, is the almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
...McAllister Ingersoll, who has been publisher of TIME since 1937, was managing editor of FORTUNE (1930-35), an editor of The New Yorker (1925-30). In the new enterprise, no TIME Inc. venture (neither TIME Inc. nor any of its officers has an interest, financial or managerial, in the project), Ralph Ingersoll's associates include ex-Associated Press Executive Edward Stanley, Mystery Story Writer S. Dashiell Hammett, Banker Harry C. Cushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., Manhattan Lawyer John F. Wharton. Its corporate name: Publications Research...
...reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving the classics to white-mustached Frederick Stock, they concentrated on the moderns that Stock was too busy to play. Some of them were not worth playing. But all of them were news. Soon the Illinois Symphony was rated as Chicago's spiciest highbrow musical institution...