Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the circumstances," says Mr. Cope, "it would simply be dishonest . . . money being collected abroad for this children's relief...
...cheerful West Pointer who shouldered the load of grief which Harry Hopkins put down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
Three days later the House sat through 14 hours of tumultuous debate. At 1 a. m. it passed and sent to the Senate a measure designed to make Relief in 1940 quite different from previous years. > Total money voted...
...With that much money, WPA can give work to 2,000,000 clients, one-third less than the 1939 average. But $125,000,000 of it was earmarked for PWA, which is required to hire only 25% of its labor from Relief rolls. Off WPA's 2,000,000 that will knock 170,000 workers...
Besides her own chapters on bas-relief, composition, portraiture, drapery and the techniques of enlarging and reducing, Sculptor Putnam gracefully includes chapters on ceramics by Carl Walters, on stone and marble carving by Robert A. Baillie, on wood carving by Gleb Derujinsky and on bronze casting by Anton Basky. Her advice to sculptors: learn to be poor and keep in good condition...