Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...54th Attorney General of the U. S. last week held his "farewell" press conference. He reviewed his labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons...
...trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...
...takes up Herbert Read, the English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the 14th than of the ist Century, that great artists never wanted to be copyists of nature, but were imaginative and expressive, that...
Goldwater of New York University has done a more scholarly job of keeping his eye on the ball, shows more intimate knowledge of modem pictures than Christine Herter. The Primitivist kickoff came during the last century, when Europeans began to envy the free life of savages, began to see something valuable in their...
...years ago educators began to hear of strange happenings at famed Teachers College. At a memorable faculty meeting, professorial sympathizers with the college's striking cafeteria workers were tongue-lashed by quick-tempered, conservative Dean William Fletcher Russell...