Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium, dropped around to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, strongly remonstrated about the case of famed Ruth Marie Rubens (TIME, Feb. 7, et ante). Mr. Davies advised Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky that U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. would become unduly strained if jailed U. S. Citizen Rubens, arrested in Moscow on the night of December 9 in the Intourist Hotel National, was not permitted to see U. S. diplomatic representatives in Moscow, as demanded .by Secretary Hull. Repeatedly in the past J. Stalin & Co. have shown unusual favors to aggressively capitalist Lawyer Davies and his General...
...Secret Political Police, instead of taking the Charge d'Affaires to their prisoner in Bolshevism's ominous new Lubianka Prison in the heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with Washington's representatives. A Soviet official took charge, had Mr. Henderson ask questions which had to be translated into Russian, then after each question...
While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that...
...went to supplement salaries of men who were working under me and whom the Government paid less than I thought they were worth. Part of it went to charities. The latter practice has been a source of a great deal of embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year for $10,000 from my salary. . . . But the folks in San Francisco got in the habit of thinking that was my regular contribution, and have...
Thoroughly discredited is the oldtime notion that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is as far out of his reach as the planet Jupiter. Museums own these things, and most museums try to attract people in to see them. Nothing, however, beats a museum for making the average man uncomfortable on Sunday afternoon...