Word: biennials
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...unofficial National Gallery by virtue of location, Washington's sedate Corcoran swam into the news last week. Rejected by Corcoran's jury for its sixteenth biennial show of U. S. oil paintings was The Eternal City, famed satire on Roman Fascism by conscientious Artist Peter Blume (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938). When supporters of Artist Blume snorted "politics!", supporters of the Corcoran sniffed "publicity...
Because the state has adopted biennial sessions for the Legislature the drive to remove the oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...
Professor Graebner told the Dies Committee in Washington that the Federal Council "meddled incessantly in political affairs, invariably sponsoring the ideals of radical groups." The Federal Council then holding its biennial meeting in Buffalo, did not tell Heckler Graebner or Congressman Dies to go chase himself. Instead it telegraphed a long defense, listing the "distinguished church leaders" who were present at its deliberations...
...Detroit, delegates to the biennial convention of the 25-year-old National Woman's Party (Mrs. Stephen H. Pell of New York, national chairman) cheered a plan to raise $1,000,000, to campaign for an Equal Rights amendment to the Constitution. *The plan: to sell red, white & blue Lady Liberty stickers, with a man and a woman balanced evenly on scales held (instead of a lawbook) in Liberty's left hand...
...give it the unity of an omelet has long been the dream of many a Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...