Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor. Davis Wilson beat Hadley in the primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only in 1933, was picked by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and other ardent Pennsylvania New Dealers to put the city back on the Democratic map. This Nominee Kelly proceeded to do largely by promoting...
Last May excitable President Bernard Karfiol of the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers proposed that his society boycott all museums that would not pay a monthly rental of 1% of the appraised valuation of the pictures exhibited. Such payments would probably bring the average exhibiting artist more than $100 a year, just about enough to meet repair expenses...
...Rockefeller. Throughout the U. S. husbands were joking about the super-hatpins which their wives were using to hold on monstrous sailor hats. Among best-selling books of the year were George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young journalist, who was one clay to record these events and many another of the Century's first quarter...
...test of the boycott came fortnight ago with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...
Others who figured prominently in the victory were Bernard Jacobson Phil Sheridan, and Frank Harden. For the visitors, Captain Dulker was outstanding...