Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League Commission Bolivia proposed an armistice. The Commission relayed this proposal last week to Paraguay, received a counter proposal for an eleven-day truce which Bolivia accepted. Then the Com- mission wired Dictator Terra and his El Pueblo siren shrieked...
...Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal dollars were to be invested...
...middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave...
Articles and illustrations were as breezy as a college cheering section, as offhand and undocumented as a street-corner argument. William Hard, seasoned, voluble Washington correspondent and radio com mentator, wrote the leading piece on the Chiselers; very brisk and readable...
Eliot: Holsapple, l.e.; Ward, l.t.; At 'ood, Hyman, l.g.; Bond, Brown, c.; 'cannell, r.g.; Loring, r.t.; Capron, r.e.; Robinson, q.b.; Koch, Dennison, Com'ock, Thacher, h.b.; Whitney...