Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isabel Bishop's paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...
...rdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything the color of earthquakes or cyclones or black small pox and consequently could not send news of our splendid economic conditions...
Most significant testimony was that of young Conway Peyton Coe, Commissioner of Patents. Now 41, Patent Lawyer Coe was the youngest man ever to be commissioner when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him five years ago (he says modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...
...title-bound Indians cavorted to a 58 to 48 triumph over Pennsylvania at Hanover with Gus Broberg's 26 points leading the way. In another feature battle Cappy Cappon and his hard-luck Princeton Tigers were never quite able to overcome an early Yale advantage, and the Orange and Black went down to defeat 27 to 26 in New Haven...