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...dependent Gold Star parents and widows of World War soldiers.* Replacing War Risk insurance payments which expire in the next three years, the pension ($45 a month for individual parents. $30 to $45 for widows) will go to 40,000 beneficiaries, cost the U. S. $8,900,000 to begin with...
...Philadelphia one day last week a pilot named George Townson took off from an airport in a plane that resembled an ordinary biplane. He circled the field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...
When their new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark promised them a "businesslike administration" last November, Missourians felt that a good place to begin businesslike reforms was in the marketing of State bonds. In 1934 Missouri voters authorized a $10,000,000 issue of building bonds for the rehabilitation of prisons and charitable institutions. Few months later the first $2,000,000 worth were sold to the highest bidder among six syndicates, including most of the top-flight bond houses in the U. S. The next $2,000,000 lot, however, was not opened to public bidding but sold privately in March...
...city hall in lower Manhattan; at present to a fine old house in Queens overlooking the East River, rented as a "summer city hall" -he is almost lost in the back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes...
Gifted, vigorous U. S. artists did not begin to climb scaffolding until painters like Sloan, Luks and Bellows had found big subjects in local streets, parks, barrooms, and until the generation of Curry, Wood and Benton had done likewise in the farm and cattle country. The possibility of integrating this material in wall designs was driven home by Mexico's two great muralists, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Missouri's Benton completed his first murals in Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931) and a movement of great and wild...