Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kuniyoshi, 51-year-old Japanese-born Manhattanite, for his delicate, deft, still-life fantasy. Room no. Last week the votes of the plain gallery-goers were finally added up, revealing as the people's choice a billowing farmscape with a threatening sky. Grey and Gold, by John Rogers Cox, 28-year-old former director of the Swope Gallery at Terre Haute...
...experts could take some comfort in the closely contested popular vote. For Artist Cox's painting, though conservative and wholly understandable, is done in a subtly stylized manner that is no trite affirmation of standard calendar charms. (At least it was not so realistic as the seascapes by the late Frederick J. Waugh, which the Carnegie public picked for five years running...
...Kuniyoshi, for pleasing the experts: $1,000. To Cox, for pleasing the public...
...last of the Commissioner's major decrees splashed into print a year ago. Violently opposed to all forms of gambling, the silver-haired Judge banned W. D. Cox, owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, from baseball for life because Cox bet on his own team. Two years before, Judge Landis blackballed Bing Crosby's bid for the Boston Braves because Bing owned a racing stable. In 1940, he waved his wand and made free agents of 92 players who had signed Detroit Tigers contracts (because Detroit used its farm clubs to "cover up" players). He always championed the little...
Fortnight ago it had become apparent that the Government's most active member of this team will be the Foreign Economic Administration. Last week Oscar Cox, FEA's general counsel, was still studying a letter drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease...