Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two annual international exhibitions of painting in the U. S. One is at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. It is held every autumn and is devoted to paintings on canvas. The other is at the Art Institute in Chicago. It is held every Spring and is devoted to paintings on paper. Visitors to the Institute's 17th International Water Color Exhibition last week found it notable for several reasons, one of which was that about half the 541 paintings shown were pure-blooded water colors. The rest of the paper paintings were in media as diverse...
...when five Southern Democrats and three Republicans voted against the six other members of the committee not to give the bill a special rule. Only remaining possibility that Wages-&-Hours would get to a vote this session appeared to be that Labor Committee Chairman Mary T. Norton, who last autumn got 217 of her colleagues to sign a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules Committee, would be able to do so again. Last week her hopes of doing so were raised by a note from Franklin Roosevelt. Excerpt: "I have no personal doubt that a large majority...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
When Helen Wills Moody published her autobiography (Fifteen-Thirty) last autumn, it was generally agreed that she had written finis to a distinguished tennis career. Seven-time U. S. Singles champion, seven-time All-England Singles champion, four-time French Singles champion, Helen Wills Moody had her share of big silver cups...
...every priest, parson and rabbi knows, there is more than one way to fill a church. The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery knows several. Founded more than three years ago, this committee has sponsored Loyalty Days every autumn with the object of filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood...