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Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...
...President listed more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...
...part of a $238,000,000 grant of PWA funds which Franklin Roosevelt wangled to strengthen the Navy back...
When Mayor Ed Kelly wangled an $18,000,000 PWA appropriation in 1938 to help build a subway, one of the strings attached was the unification of all city transportation facilities. His City Council passed a unification plan, voters adopted it 10-to-1 in a referendum. All bondholders approved the plan; so did the Federal Court which handles the receivership proceedings...
...Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been in close contact with him in shaping Federal power policies, a subject...