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Least commercial artist in the U. S. is probably lean Georgia O'Keeffe, who paints in luminous colors skulls, flowers, feathers, barns and New Mexico. Last winter Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Ltd. (Dole pineapple) plucked up its courage, asked Artist O'Keeffe to go to Hawaii and paint two pictures for it. She agreed, on condition that she could paint whatever she pleased...
...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
...keep their jobs, NYAsters had to kick back part of their dole to officials (in one case...
...straight relief as opposed to work relief: "I tell my visitor that never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
...keeping with the Administration's new business appeasement drive, Mr. Wallace's Mr. Perkins proposes to hand over to Business itself the distribution of surpluses. Instead of buying surpluses direct from farmers and doling them out to the needy, FSCC will dole out tickets redeemable for food at any grocery. Grocers would do all the buying and selling, cash the tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would...