Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Czech crisis and the ominous maneuvers of 1,300,000 German soldiers beyond the French frontier, placed French Communists and Socialists in a corner. Premier Daladier's proposal to emasculate the 40-hour law was a slap in their face but they dared not set out to wreck his Cabinet...
...country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about its job in an orderly manner...
...Centres. Beyond keeping artists at work under capable direction, Holger Cahill had two principal aims for the Art Project: 1) to clarify, by research, "the native background of the arts," and 2) to break up the big city monopoly on Art by getting people all over the U. S. interested in art as an everyday part of living and working. To accomplish the first aim, the Index of American Design was set up in January 1936, and to date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft...
...Olivo (olive-colored special train) at an obscure siding and gallops off to find the underprivileged. On such occasions local governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business...
...spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were deemed unsatisfactory. Beyond that neither underwriters nor Government had anything to add. Henry S. Morgan, second son of Banker J. P., simply said: ''It is now a dead cock...