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...official orders, a truck backed up to the warehouse, carted off the canvases to Manhattan. There were several thousand earnest easel paintings which WPA had somehow deemed "unallocatable." Dr. Win-the-War's Government had decided to liquidate the last traces of Dr. New Deal's great WPArt Project. *The bales of paintings jiggling on the truck were sold for junk...
...Roosevelt abolished the WPArt Project in December, 1942 in the face of rising war employment after it had spent around...
Administrator Somervell ordered a thorough recheck of New York City's 1,000 WPArt workers for Communistic activities. Said soft-spoken Artist Henkel: "Somervell's a soldier and doesn't understand what culture means...