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Next day President Roosevelt called correspondents into the library, announced his decision. The problem, said he, was simply one of dollars, men and time. PWA's heavy program could not get well started until next spring. So far the relief program had put only 800,000 persons to work, 500,000 of them in the CCC. Therefore from December to March most of Work Relief's loose change was going to Mr. Hopkins for his quick, small, cheap jobs?adding up to something like Mr. Hopkins' old "leaf-raking" CWA program. By March, declared the President, that program could...
...first action was taken last fall when the Planning Board made a sketch of a 100 feet stagle apan bridge, 40 feet wide, In February, along with all the other numerous PWA projects, was one to build this bridge, but the Legislature turned it down...
...great relief to PWA, to the College Art Association, to Architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and Chester Holmes Aldrich and to Edward Laning last week to learn that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible...
...directors of the Santa Monica library, offered to paint murals in the reading room free as a memorial to his father. The offer was abruptly refused. Last year he made his offer again, provided that he be reimbursed for the cost of paints, canvas, white lead, etc. Regional PWA Director Merle W. Armitage headed a committee that raised $1,000, and last week the murals were up, 2,000 sq. ft. of them, in 38 panels...
...year, would make everyone with an income over $5,000 a year pay a surtax, would add $60 a year to the tax of a man earning $6,000, $160 a year to the tax of a man earning $10,000. Even a jobless single man working on a PWA relief project might soon find himself owing the Government an income tax on money the same government had paid him to keep from starving...