Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work or Starve!" Meany's duties in Albany occupied him just three days a week while the legislature sat. Meanwhile, he found plenty to worry about downstate. The Depression was in full tide, and in the summer of 1935 the New Deal came to the rescue with the WPA. The wages WPA offered to the unemployed were less than the prevailing union scales for building-trades members. Said Meany: "We are not attempting to dictate how the Federal Government shall handle relief. We are merely endeavoring to uphold the prevailing wage law for which we had to fight...
John F. (for Francis) Kennedy came out of a Gillette Safety Razor stockroom last fall to be elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by nearly 200,000 votes. He did not have much education (seventh grade plus some night courses) or experience (he had graduated from the WPA to stockroom clerk), but his name on the ballot looked just like that of popular and able U.S. Senator John F. (for Fitzgerald) Kennedy...
...books mutilated or stolen. Fights have broken out when as many as 25 people tried to grab the same volume of an encyclopedia; some eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where no one else could find them. Copies of the WPA's guide to New York state have not only disappeared from the library and most of its 80 branches; its price in secondhand bookstores has soared to as much as $100 a copy. Said a harried librarian: "One day the clue had to do with Mormons and we just...
...Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings, 1,696 sculptures (mostly small), 21,451 prints and drawings, 22,000 watercolor renderings and photographs of American art objects (made under WPA auspices), 815 objects of decorative art, and 1,436 photographs from Alfred Stieglitz' collection. Total worth: more than $200 million...
Realist Bohrod started out painting brick-by-brick cityscapes of his native Chicago and did a stint for the WPA before he covered the war in the Pacific and the Normandy invasion as a LIFE artist-correspondent. Focusing now on Trompe-l'Oeil, Bohrod explains: "If explanation of these works is needed at all, I might say that they come about particularly because of my impatience with and my reaction against the scattershot, nonobjective and surface-decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows...