According puppeteer Bil Baird (104-1987), in 1934, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia supported a puppet company as part of a program public works.
"Two years later," he writes, "President Franklin Roosevelt thought it might be a good idea to arrange fifty puppet companies to visit the States STATES and explain the process of democracy and philosophy of the New Deal. "
Unfortunately," the project is mired in partisan politics and never took off it was a missed opportunity, and as close as we have ever met, I suppose, to have federal support for the puppet. ".
Image: NW Puppet Center Opens Great Depression piece
Quote Book: The Art of Puppet
by Bil Baird. 