Word: arista
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless...
...Hudson D. Walker Gallery were about 50 prints, beginning with a set of illustrations for Hauptmann's Weavers which first brought Kathe Kollwitz fame, in 1897, as a proletarian artist. At the Arista Gallery were etchings and lithographs from this and later periods. At the Buchholz Gallery were recent drawings by the artist, including Mother & Two Children (see cut), and four pieces of sculpture done since 1932, when Artist Kollwitz produced her first strong work in stone for a Belgian cemetery, where her youngest son was buried after his death in the German offensive...
...also could not pay its debts last week. City and county (they are practically identical) owed 600 million dollars on bonds. The community had enough money to pay its bank debts, but $1,625,000 less than enough to pay 26,000 employes their mid December wages. Mayor Harry Arista Mackey & staff tried to kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund. The kited city checks were to be called "scrip." Banks refused to pour more money down the political sewer. Private...
Mayor Harry Arista Mackey of Philadelphia assured the American Medical Association convention there last week that Philadelphia was perfectly safe for them. The doctors did not investigate. They industriously streamed between the convention hall and their hotels. The hotels were overcrowded. The A. M. A. had forecast 5,000 doctors and their wives would attend the convention. About 7,500 appeared. The wives visited places and collected free samples. The husbands talked and listened to a practically unassimilable number of medical facts, of which some held attention...
Current purpose of the Aristogenic Association is to stimulate good biological breeding by example. Bright healthy young men in colleges (Phi Beta Kappa) and high schools (Arista, honor society) will be recorded and watched for future nomination as Aristogents. Remote purpose is to provide scholars 100 years hence with a detailed image of what will then be Old American...