Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This special session of Congress Com-mander Calver and the two enlisted men who help him have not been very busy. They maintain health charts for all Congressmen and frequently check up on the members' hearts and blood pressure. Most calls have been for colds and constipation. But last Congress Dr. Calver's tiny force earned its salt. Most dramatic incident occurred when Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood...
...impressionistic back grounds. These as well as his choice of subjects were a major influence in the great French group which immediately followed him and included Courbet, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet. As a portrait painter, Goya was a quick, fashionable success. The nobility crowded to his studio, recklessly tossed him com missions which he invariably accepted. At 40 he was making big money and spending most of it. He bought himself a two-wheeled carriage, a thoroughbred horse. On his first trip he fell, spraining his ankle. On a subsequent trip the carriage tipped over, killed an onlooker. Goya sold...
...like Knox and Holmes were common. Only Franklin has survived. It survived not so much be cause of the winterproof feature as because of its quality. One of Franklin's best markets has long been among such mechanically inept persons as doctors, authors, professors who want big car com fort with small car economy. Founder Franklin prized his reputation for fine materials and scrupulous workmanship. Franklin, always a high-priced car, sells today from...
...Most Philadelphians felt that they had Mary Louise Curtis Bok to thank for sav ing their city's opera reputation. She has been quietly attending all the Orchestra's board meetings. She still owns the scenery and costumes used by the Philadelphia Grand Opera. Only a professional com pany can give her Curtis Institute pupils the experience they need. The Philadelphia Grand Opera dis banded when Curtis Publishing, earnings were about at their low. Now Curtis no longer owns the money-losing New York Evening Post* And the Saturday Evening Post was 1 24 pages thick last week...
...plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with...