Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article in TIME, June 12 under the heading Power-"Poet, Project, Pork, Progress"-has been called to my attention...
Actress Tallulah Bankhead's uncle-&-father-hugging act of last fortnight (TIME, July 3) had the effect of winning Uncle John and enough other Senators to restore the Federal Theatre Project to the 1940 Relief Bill. Miss Bankhead should have hugged more Representatives. When the bill went to conference, the House men simply would not warm up. They killed FTP dead, but they did agree to some other Senate generosities. As sent to the President and signed by him sorrowfully ("definite hardship and inequality on ... 8,000,000 if we count in their families...
...Fixed at $52,000 the size of any WPA building project...
...Senate subcommittee voted to restore life to FTP. Actress Bankhead's Uncle John telegraphed her: "I tried 24 hours to find a weak place in your masterly argument. . . . Check me off as voting for the project...
...bouncing personality, his fellow artists paid tribute at the completion of his 25th season last year (TIME, March 28, 1938). Last week, as Martinelli vacationed in Italy, the Metropolitan announced that it had signed him on for the 2jth year-a record for a big-league tenor. Chief Martinelli project for next season: his first Wagnerian role, Tristan, with the Chicago City Opera Company...