Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another in its series of unusual symphonic concerts will be presented by the Federal Music Project at Jordan Hall, Sunday evening, when two eminent concert pianists, Guy and Lois Maier appear as guest artists with the familiar State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Thiede...
...many years associated with Lee Pattison in the concert team of "Pattison and Maier," Mr. Maier has enjoyed a long and successful career in the concert halls of this country, Europe and the Orient. He is now acting as Assistant to the National Director of the Federal Music Project...
...Harvard community. The plan is frankly experimental. The exact path of development cannot now be traced. Since no building is involved and no additions to our staff are required, the scheme is flexible and if found impractical can be modified or indeed abandoned in favor of some other project which may seem more promising. We are, however, embarking on this enterprise with high hopes, confirmed by the favorable opinion of many journalists, editors and publishers who have been consulted. I believe that through this new undertaking Harvard may have the privilege of making a useful contribution to contemporary America...
Surprise. Few practices arouse more bitterness among utility men than that of Federal money to build municipal plants which compete with private companies. When the PWA made a loan and grant to establish public plants in four small northern Alabama communities, the constitutionality of the project was promptly attacked by Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold...
...talked of a ''world's greatest" monument (in the form of a memorial lighthouse), finally got the backing of the Pan American Conference of 1923, a design, support of the League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World. To publicize the project and to get this sympathy backed by the $5,000,000 hard cash necessary for its completion, the Dominican Government last spring, before it fell to warring with Haiti, announced a "Goodwill Flight'' to 52 cities in 26 countries from Argentina to Canada...