Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Housing Administrator James A. Moffett whose plans for stimulating private building. Mr. Ickes insisted, would produce no results (TIME, Dec...
...Dec. 6 materials for the first six houses arrived. Few weeks later some of them had been set up. The reason for what happened next has never been satisfactorily explained. An official version is that the managers, who had counted at first on average-size families, suddenly decided to give preference to oversize ones. Another story is that Mrs. Roosevelt, who has made frequent visits to Reedsville, took a look at the little square cabins and decided they were not good enough for her pet project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with...
...ever given a woman, possibly the largest commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 life-size statues and busts in bronze, depicting, to the best of present anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with strings of beads, done West African types in the solid comfort of the Paris Colonial...
Another Red record was added last week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). For the first time since the Russian Revolution of 1917, eminent agents of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before one of the drumhead courts they have made odious...
Left. By the late Lord Riddell, publisher of News of the World (TIME, Dec. 17): some $9,490,000; to his widow ($500,000 and an annuity of $40,000); to servants, charities; to Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Golfer James Braid ($5,000 each...