Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traveling by plane, train, boat and bus, White met a wide cross section of the population and was pleased to hear how many consider TIME their principal source of world news. Said a technician on the Mid-Canada Warning Line, who gets his copy of the magazine by helicopter: "There's a scramble when TIME comes in-and all along the line on the way in other guys have been reading it. Some of 'em cut out stories they like, and that's the worst part. I'll say this, though-it may arrive in tatters...
...Interstate Commerce Commission's Chairman, Hugh Cross (a Republican originally appointed to the ICC by Harry Truman), resigned after a Senate committee heard that he had approached railroad companies (over which the ICC has jurisdiction) on behalf of a friend seeking an inter-station transfer contract in Chicago...
...resulting "Americans in Europe" is not only a cross section of younger talents but a progress report on where U.S. painters are trending. Confirming the southward migration of painters, Mrs. Halpert found Rome bursting with energy and independence, with Americans leading the way. Among the canvases she picked up are a boldly painted Galleria, Naples by Manhattan-born Al Blaustein, 32, and a startling Crucifixion by Abbey Scholarship Winner Thomas H. Dehill Jr., 31, of Cambridge. In Paris Mrs. Halpert found young Americans hemmed in by high costs and an abstractionist syndrome, but she spotted some work she liked, including...
...little more than the title is actually necessary to decipher a Klee painting. The red arrows indicate motion, in this case of wind feeding the fire, while the green arrows struggle to hem the flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children's sidewalk scrawls; the figures might as well be cow with heifers as dog with pups. The message is the same: adult overconcern v. childhood unconcern. But the enveloping red which has already colored the bellowing female suggests the alarming possibility that this time...
...shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," thundered William Jennings Bryan at the end of the peroration that won him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." In the most famed speech ever made in the U.S. on money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley...