Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Painting" which gave Manhattanites such a view of Art under Fascism as they would not otherwise have found in the U. S. except in the Italian room at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International. Except for the unaccountable absence of paintings by Felice Carena. a graceful and accomplished Italian counterpart of America's John Carroll, it was a comprehensive though not a highly selective show. The 100 paintings included works by private painters as well as painters on whom the Corporate State has set the seal of official approval by commissioning them to do frescoes for public buildings...
...regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds from coast to coast in the United States today. In uniforms strangely suggestive of those worn by Adolf Hitler's Nazi storm troops, a relatively small [20,000] but rapidly growing army is preparing for the American counterpart...
This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...
...which lies a dead soldier. They are all in white with white headdresses and the bier is covered with delicate, almost transparent white linen. Rows of white crosses converge toward a hill crowned with a church set against a little pile of distant cumulus clouds. For a modern counterpart of this scene St. Nicholas parishioners can look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend...
...TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), will be the first formal attempt by a U. S. university to provide training for public servants. Such a school was the lifetime dream of President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell whose standard work on The Government of England laments the absence of a U. S. counterpart to the university-trained British Civil Service. After accepting the gift of Gloveman Littauer, who once sat in Congress (1897-1907), Chemist Conant appointed a steering committee headed by Princeton's public-spirited President Harold Willis Dodds to engage in a preliminary survey. Since March the committee has been...