Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week New Yorkers who were willing to make the trip down to 175 Canal St. and up four flights of stairs had a chance to note the effect of the Sino-Japanese war upon the minds of American-born Chinese children aged 4 to 16. The children's first National Art Exhibition, staged by the alert four-year-old Chinese Art Club, had gathered 550 drawings and paintings from every part of the country, including Honolulu...
...custody. He was reported in good health but morose, convinced he would not be free before the collapse of Naziism. The Government, which has offered him release on condition that he refrain from preaching, gave the screw a turn by threatening to evict Niemoller's wife and seven children from his old rectory. Two thousand members of the Dahlem congregation approved a protest declaring: "This is not . . . Christian. . . . We consider Pastor Niemoller, though he may be imprisoned, as our rightfully chosen minister...
...only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works. Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles away, Herbert Hoover...
...tall, salty Vermonter who just missed being a preacher, John Cotton Dana became a surveyor for his health, then took charge of the public libraries of Denver, Springfield, Mass, and Newark (beginning in 1902). He believed in making books useful. He started the first children's library in the U. S., the first business branch libraries, the first extensive public files of periodicals and newspapers. On the fourth floor at Newark he set aside two rooms and a corridor for Art; in 1909 it was incorporated as a museum and received $10,000 from the town...
Meanwhile Director Dana had brought art to the people by such further innovations as museum branches (in his own branch libraries), free tours for school children, exhibitions of well-designed articles bought for a dime apiece in the city stores, a "lending collection" of art objects ranging from Tibetan to Pennsylvanian, packed in neat boxes and borrowed like library books. When John Cotton Dana died ten years ago this month, he had coaxed the annual city appropriation from $10,000 to $150,000, upped annual attendance to 125,000, won the title of "Newark's First Citizen...