Government and the Arts: Hearing Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 741, a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of a Federal Advisory Council on the Arts to Assist in the Growth and Development of the Fine Arts in the United States; S. 785, a Bill to Establish a Program of Grants to States for the Development of Programs and Projects in the Arts, and for Other Purposes; [and] S. 1250, a Bill to Establish the United States Arts Foundation, August 29, 30, and 31, 1962Considers legislation to authorize Federal grants to states for arts promotion, to establish a Federal Advisory Council on the Arts, and to establish a U.S. Arts Foundation. |
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