Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since then, he has built a healthy...
...growth." ¶Second prize ($1,000) to Abstract Expressionist James Brooks, 50, for his swirling 7-ft.-by-7-ft. R-1953 (right), a noncommittal title indicating alphabetically that it was Brooks's 18th painting in 1953. Born in St. Louis, Artist Brooks is a former WPA muralist (La Guardia Airport's 235-ft. Marine Terminal mural) who switched'over to abstraction, after Army service in World War II, "with a sense of reawakening and release." For Brooks, "the meaning is in the series of relationships, the pressures, the visual shifts. I don't feel...
...lithography was started by Picasso himself, who in 1945 became fascinated with the out-of-mode art form, was soon joined by a host of modern masters-Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro et al. In the U.S. lithography, which was revived as an art form under the WPA, also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc and offset printing...
...refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia's backwoods; county seat: Camilla, pop. 4,000). He calls the U.S. foreign-aid program a "global WPA," and roars: "We gave money to build grain elevators in Pakistan. Why, that's 12,500 miles from Georgia...
...Edmond H. Leavey, 60, was named president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding the late William H. Harrison. Leavey, a Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender...