Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
...Evangelical minister, he was born in Portland, Ore., accepted his first call as a preacher at a United Evangelical church in Canton, Ohio, in 1905. From then on, his life as a minister of the Gospel and a servant of man were inextricably interwoven. During the '20s, he was probably the nation's most popular radio preacher, and for eight years he was pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Marble Collegiate Church-a post now held by his friend and disciple, Norman Vincent Peale. Poling also served for a time as head of the J. C. Penney Foundation...
They are a world removed from the robber barons of the '20s, who manipulated markets for their own gain. But while their motives are proper enough, and their actions usually beneficial, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, the apolitical conscience of the nation's economy, has warned that the managers of the institutions wield a potentially dangerous amount of market influence...
...decades after the Depression wiped out the loosely run mortgage-guaranty companies that flourished in the '20s, the Federal Government was the only source of insurance for home loans, chiefly through the Federal Housing Administration. Today, seven private companies are successfully challenging that monopoly. The oldest and by far the largest, Milwaukee-based Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp., has not only grown into a thriving concern with $50 million of assets and $3.5 billion of insurance in force, but has also spread its operations into 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Australia...
...Foujita, 81, Japanese-born painter who settled in France; of cancer; in Zurich. An eccentric off canvas as well as on, Foujita reached Paris in 1913 in purple morning coat and pith helmet, went on to hobnob with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the '20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils. He topped off his career in 1966 with a set of giant frescoes for a specially built chapel near Rheims, hoping cheerfully to "atone for 80 years...