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...made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
...theatre in New York's Harlem. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. published WPA in sheet music. Last spring Decca made a record of it in its "race" (euphemism for Negro) catalogue. WPA was not the first topical song on Government work relief. Decca had released Working for the PWA; Working on the Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have to say; take away the whole alphabet, but don't take away the PWA"]. Columbia had a WPA Rag, a Pink Slip Blues low-moaned by oldtime...
Mayor Walter Tripp's brother has succeeded him in office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor...
...administrative bills WPA had contributed $75,900, PWA...
...defeat Senator George in 1938. Mr. Camp averred, with a convincing air, that he was not the informer. Gossiping Crackers then remembered that their Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers has at least two unremitting foes: 1) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, whom the Governor recently outsmarted in a PWA hospital deal; 2) clever, eerie-eyed Gene Talmadge, who is still up & doing in retirement at McRae, Ga. Governor Rivers and Uncle George get along all right...