Aid to Fine Arts: Hearing Before the Select Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4172, H. R. 4174, and Related Bills to Aid the Fine Arts in the United States. Hearing Held in Washington, D. C., May 15, 1961U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 364 pages |
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... Soviet Union " . Lockhart , Bill , president , Texas Art Educators Association , telegram to Chairman Thompson __- McDowell , Hon . Harris B. , Jr. , a Representative in Congress from the State of Delaware : Excerpt from memorandum ...
... Soviet Union " . Lockhart , Bill , president , Texas Art Educators Association , telegram to Chairman Thompson __- McDowell , Hon . Harris B. , Jr. , a Representative in Congress from the State of Delaware : Excerpt from memorandum ...
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... Soviets do something as dramatic in the field of music as they have done in the field of space , we can get something . Mr. KENIN . Well , they have , Mr. Chairman . The impact of it perhaps has not reached us but those in this field ...
... Soviets do something as dramatic in the field of music as they have done in the field of space , we can get something . Mr. KENIN . Well , they have , Mr. Chairman . The impact of it perhaps has not reached us but those in this field ...
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... Soviet Government as an example that we ought to follow , they have aroused the editors in this country about the ... Soviets or anyone else . This should have been done with the foundation of the Republic . There is no question about ...
... Soviet Government as an example that we ought to follow , they have aroused the editors in this country about the ... Soviets or anyone else . This should have been done with the foundation of the Republic . There is no question about ...
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... Soviet Union last year . This was an official State Department - sponsored mission and it involved Miss Lawler , Mayo Brice , and Ralph Beelke , representing the U.S. Office of Education and the Art Department of the National Education ...
... Soviet Union last year . This was an official State Department - sponsored mission and it involved Miss Lawler , Mayo Brice , and Ralph Beelke , representing the U.S. Office of Education and the Art Department of the National Education ...
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... Soviet Union . In fact what we are arguing for here is already recognized 1 From " Federal Music Project's Contribution to American Music , " an address by Guy Maier , Assistant to the Federal Music Director , at the 1938 convention of ...
... Soviet Union . In fact what we are arguing for here is already recognized 1 From " Federal Music Project's Contribution to American Music , " an address by Guy Maier , Assistant to the Federal Music Director , at the 1938 convention of ...
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