Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other evidence adduced last week of Presidential tastes: 1) The President and Mrs. Roosevelt selected 32 paintings from the Public Works exhibit at the Corcoran Art Gallery to hang in the White House offices. His favorite was Winter Street by A. H. Pearson of Chicago. The President said none of the pictures shows despondency and anyone can tell at a glance what they represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear...
...Star. Suddenly his eyes fell upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds carousing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive...
...subsequently found guilty of disorderly conduct, the angry Admiral asked: "Can you imagine 13,000 young college men, say, from Yale, Harvard, Columbia ... or any body of business men . . . having such an excellent record? . . . I trust [the picture] will not only not be allowed to be hung in the Corcoran Gallery or in any other, but that it will be immediately destroyed...
...alleged to show the jolly tars rolling about with harlots and booze, in the popular tradition of all good sailors on shore leave. It was judged good enough to be given a place in the cross-section of CWA art to be displayed at the Corcoran gallery in Washington...
...Crawley, ss 5 3 1 1 1 Rooney, 3b 4 0 0 0 0 McMahon, 2b 3 0 2 3 0 Galluccio, c 5 2 9 0 0 Bourges, lf 4 1 0 0 0 Guerrl, cf 5 0 5 0 0 Courtney, rf 1 0 0 0 0 Corcoran, lf 5 1 8 0 1 Connors, p 2 2 1 1 0 Frisoli, 3b 1 0 0 0 0 Anderson, rf 4 3 1 0 0 Riley...