Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Father." Cardinal-elect Villeneuve cares for the second oldest see in North America, the one Writer Willa Gather made famous in Shadows on the Rock. His election as archbishop made certain his appointment as cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape...
Cats. One of Paul Fiene's best cat statues was not on view in his own exhibition last week but up on 57th Street where the Ferargil Galleries held an elaborate cat show. Following a showing of cats in art at the little Maurel Gallery year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita...
...prosecution of Sam Kaplan, deposed boss of Manhattan's Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators' Union, for coercion (expelling carpers who wanted an accounting of union funds from which Kaplan drew a $21,800 salary and "gifts") (TIME, Dec. 12); conviction; in Manhattan...
...discovery of $500,000 defalcations from Standard-Vacuum Transportation Co. (Socony-Vacuum tanker line) by Assistant Paymaster William C. Head. 50 (TIME, Dec. 12); a sentence of three to six years imprisonment; in Manhattan...
...Cleveland Museum of Art and Collectors Helen Clay Frick and William Randolph Hearst discovered that they were all supplied with the works of Sculptor Alceo Dossena in his varying moods. They knew them under a variety of other names and the smell the story aroused was not sweet (TIME, Dec...