Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the South, said Alabama's New Dealing Aubrey Williams in 1947, was that most of its brains and talent went North. That, he added modestly, included himself. By faithfully serving Franklin D. Roosevelt in the left wing of the New Deal, Williams had risen high in the WPA, was National Youth Administrator for five years. But in 1945, when the Senate rejected his nomination as Rural Electrification Administrator because of his leftish views, his northern political star blinked out. Williams packed up his talents and headed south again...
...only books and newspapers have been stored in the building. During the war, the Army conducted a research center in the first floor, and Business School beds and Fogg Museum furniture were kept in the building at various times. Currently a huge stack of boxes of WPA documents is sitting on the first level, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library...
Blue Neon Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
From the time he heard his first concert in Philadelphia at the age of twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...