Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose...
Candidates must satisfy the committee that they are physically fitted to profit from a period of residence in a foreign climate, that they have achieved distinction in some recognized branch of learning, and that they are willing to devote their whole time to study travel, and social intercourse with fellow students...
...official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over the edge of a table like so much melting butter. A second, like an old washrag, hung over a dead branch. The third reposed on the back of a small monster with a long delicate nose. The fourth, rigid, was crawling with ants...
Statesmen he says "have included in their concept of national interests the loaning of money to foreign governments and corporations, the selling of American goods abroad, the establishment of branch factories abroad, and the tangible property owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea...
...Moving to insure rigid enforcement of the Federal Stock Market Regulation Program, the Securities and Exchange Commission tonight announced plans to open branch offices in seven key cities...