Word: chris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked, a criticism to which the State Assembly stiffly replied: "It is deemed that such mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin and piping voice made him popular with Wisconsin students. Question: How did all this affect the painting of a Kansan who six years ago put Kansas on the U. S. artistic...
...Chris G. Petrow, Webster City, Iowa--Lincoln High School, Webster City...
After a peg-legged, 73-year-old union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...
...members of the Legislature, Representatives George W. Plummer and Chris F. Schrepel, were sponsors of a bill declaring that any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol was "intoxicating" in Kansas. The Plummer-Schrepel bill passed the House, then passed the Senate and went to conference because of a Senate amendment. That amendment specifically classed malt beverages containing not more than 3.2% of alcohol as non-intoxicating. Last week the bill thus amended came again before the House, still bearing the names of Messrs. Plummer & Schrepel...
...uncrowned king of a royal family of ice yacht experimenters. Almost killed when his radical Paula III overturned in 1933, unshipping her mast and smashing her hull down on him, Starke Meyer returned to racing, continued his experimental Paula series through 1935. His four brothers, Arnold, Chris, Henry (eight-time winner of the N. W. I. Y. A. 350-ft. class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them is credited the idea of having the steering runner at the front instead of stern so that when the wind lifts the rear...