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...Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart for a CCC, based not on conscription but on voluntary enrollment...
Unquestionably Hiler's masterpiece, this mural embodies a refinement of intelligent detail and one of the most thoroughly studied color systems now at the command of an artist. He has evolved his own color chart, with 24 hues based not on the spectrum, obtained by the mechanical refraction of white light, but on pigments found in nature and the observed human reactions to them. He is far prouder of the Aquatic Park's "color chart room"-in which these hues and their tints, shades and tones are painted on a 60-foot ceiling -than of the undersea murals...
...several years been in effect divided into two types -ordinary (Government operating expenses, national defense, interest on public debt, etc.) and extraordinary (relief, highways, Civilian Conservation Corps, flood control, public buildings, etc.). The former he would have remain fairly constant from year to year; but extraordinary expenses would chart (in reverse) the country's ups and downs, and he suggested that these expenses be treated as national investments...
...compilation by the Civil Service Reform League last week found that 99,000 Democrats in 17 States will be turned out of political jobs by victorious Republicans. In two States (California, Maryland) 9,700 Republicans were turned out by victorious Democrats. Mr. Garner was unimpressed by an election chart, said to have been prepared by the Jurizarlat. which purported to show that the New Deal's set-backs in November were largely local defeats, hinging on local issues, scandals, personalities...
Secretary Ira Chart '37, graduate student of Romance Philology, was much more explicit than the other members of the triumvirate. According to him, the club now has 25 members, and is strengthening itself with new and "serious" devotees. "It is virtually a discussion group," confided Chart, "we often meet at my house and talk quite intimately...