Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
...First the hydrogens, clothed in brilliant red, appear and trip through a gay waltz expressive of their joy at the escape from the harsh gas laws that usually confine them. Then two atoms in black, carbons, emerge and grab four hydrogens each. Their kinetic freedom lost, the hydrogens now execute vibrations around the carbon atoms (methane...
Robert Koch '39, is chairman, and Henry Steinhardt '42 secretary of the League. On the executive council, chosen on a cross-section basis, are Lloyd Booth, Jr., '39; Peter Black '42; Henry Landy 1G Frances Baxter, Radcliffe '40; and Sarah Caumann, Radcliffe...
...little money at first, but Photographer Abbott landed with the Federal Art Project in 1935. A direct girl who still talks harsh Ohio, still wears a Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...