Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architects' draughtsmen whom Depression has stranded without work. Having read reports of the progressive cocktail parties, exhibitions of hobbies and other festivals by which Eastern architects were attempting to take care of their unemployed (TIME, Feb. 22; June 6), a committee of Chicago architects organized the affair, which was unofficially called a Féte Charrette. Survivors last week were still too disorganized to know just how much money had been raised beyond expenses...
...dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell] : very miserable. He doesn't know why he lives at all: mere...
...valued at $153,000.000, were reported so low that the expenses of an inventory could not be met. Other developments followed quickly. At his home in Redfield, S. Dak., Senator Peter Norbeck announced that when Congress reassembles his Wall Street-lashing committee on banking & currency will investigate the Insull affair. In Chicago, U. S. District Attorney Dwight F. Green, whose office gathered the Capone-jailing evidence, started an inquiry. State's Attorney John A. Swanson demanded a $50,000 appropriation, to be used in weeding the Insull records for evidence of criminal acts. A committee of bondholders sought subpenas...
...Class of 1936, which during the past few days has been feted and fed, will have a final reception this evening at Phillips Brooks House before beginning a more academic existence. The meeting tonight at 7.30 o'clock is an annual affair sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association, and consists of addresses by leaders in the various undergraduate activities...
Governor Ely acted with great courage in nominating Professor Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. For though Professor Frankfurter has many warm friends in this Commonwealth, he also has bitter enemies who have neither understood nor forgiven his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti affair. It is therefore highly gratifying to know that the Governor's Council had already acknowledged his peculiar fitness for the position before his decision to decline the appointment became known...