Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...feature called "My Day" in which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places: 2) the fireplace where Presidents had their food cooked a century ago; 3) the office of White House...
...WPAdministrator Victor Ridder despairingly cried that, because most remaining employables without jobs were unskilled, he did not see how he could possibly do it. "It appears that we are getting down to the end of the string," said he. "The city seems to have reached the saturation point in WPA projects...
Chief Darling's 20-month record is, however, far from one of complete frustration. By an unnoticed rider to an innocuous joint resolution he got $6,000,000 out of Congress, From WPA, PWA, the Forestry Service and other agencies he chivvied another $8,500,000 to spend primarily for their purposes, but indirectly with benefits to his wild game. He has actually turned some 900,000 acres of submarginal land over to his beloved ducks and other animals...
...connection with turning the dole back to the States, Mr. Hopkins undertook to have 3,500,000 unemployed on work relief by Nov. 1, a date since postponed to Dec. 1. Last week the original deadline was reached and the latest figures issued by WPA (as of Oct. 26) showed that only 1,543,000 had so far been put on work relief...
Skewered on Political Columnist Frank Kent's agile pen, a WPA pressagent named Hugh Amick and his New Deal employers were roasted for three days last week in the Baltimore Sun. Into the hands of Pundit Kent, who mortally hates & fears the New Deal's spending policies, had fallen releases by Pressagent Amick describing three camps for girls established in Kansas with some of the 50,000,000 Work Relief dollars set aside by President Roosevelt "to do something for the nation's unemployed Youth" (TIME, July 8). Largely by quotation, Pundit Kent drew the following picture...