Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress and the public President Roosevelt last week gave the evidence which had caused him to release a blast at wealthy tax-dodgers (TIME, June 7). It was in the form of a 3,000 word letter from Secretary Morgenthau and amounted to a short course in the art of tax-dodging as perfected by high-priced lawyers...
...racket was as old as life and disability insurance. That it was able to involve such a man as Dean Wyckoff was testimony to the fine art it has become. The racket: fraudulent doctors and lawyers give a heavily insured "patient"' violent exercises, purges and doses of digitalis. When they achieve a plausible specimen of exhaustion and palpitation, they get his condition on record by hospitalizing him under a conspiring physician's care. Cardiograms, sphygmomanometer readings, charts and reports pile up the evidence. Then comes the payoff: the certification of a reputable heart specialist, called in to examine...
...artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes he believes is a rediscovery of a lost purple used by the Egyptians. He made paints from clay, peanuts and cattle dung. With these he painted pictures, some of which hang in art galleries. From wood shavings he made a synthetic marble...
Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship (for 1937-38 and 1938-39; $1,400 each year) for the study of painting, preferably in Europe, to Albert C. Koch, Jr. 3GSD, of Cambridge, Mass
...rest of the lineup will remain unchanged with Art Johns and Dave Shean, who won starting places in last week's shakeup, returning to their respective positions at second and left field...