Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvas out of Russia. Last week newshawks in Paris found Mantacheff, learned he had sold the painting a year ago for 90,000 francs to Calouste Sartis Gulbenkian, a naturalized Briton, born in Armenia, who made a fortune by wangling a 5% share in the Irak oil concessions (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). September Morn hangs in his home at No. 51 Avenue Sena. Said Mr. Gulbenkian's secretary: "Please be kind enough to tell the world that Mr. Gulbenkian has no intention of selling the painting and does not want to be bothered with prospective purchasers." Exulted white-haired...
...Toronto, Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, mother of 14, hopes to win $500,000 by bearing twins this year, and thus becoming beyond compare Toronto's most prolific woman (TIME, Dec...
...William A. Clark prize went to Eugene Speicher for his famed portrait of a blacksmith, Red Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...
Died. Gerald Charles MacGuire, 38, bond salesman (Grayson M.P. Murphy & Co.) whom Major General Smedley D. Butler last November charged had approached him with an offer to lead a Fascist march on Washington (TIME, Dec. 3); of uremia and pneumonia; in New Haven, Conn. His brother, William J. MacGuire, declared that his death was the result of the "unjust charges...
...December 1934 A Century of Progress had taken in $29,321,876 from paid admissions, space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been paid, including $10,000,000 to bondholders. That left the fair with a net balance of $773,651 on Dec. 31. After it has completed demolition, satisfied a few remaining claims, paid off a skeleton staff now cleaning up odds & ends, A Century of Progress will turn any surplus over to Chicago's South Park Board, whose land was used for exhibits, and to scientific institutions...