Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal recognized this movement and provided an outlet for it. Organized in 1934, the Treasury Department's Division of Painting & Sculpture has kept up spirited competition between U. S. muralists for the walls of Washington's huge departmental buildings. For artists on relief, WPA's astute Art Director Holger Cahill nas found some 500 mural jobs employing more than 1,000 painters. Both Federal agencies are haopy about the results, but the pride of me Treasury is in mural painting alone and in such newly-discovered talents as Frank Mechau, of Colorado, whose Dangers of the Mail...
That this incident would have provoked a resignation if strong-willed Dr. Dennett had been getting along smoothly with his trustees, Williams men found hard to believe. They pointed out that Tyler Dennett is a man who needs plenty of elbow room, that he quit his post as Historical Adviser...
Died. Julius L. Meier, 62, onetime president of Meier & Frank, famed Portland, Ore., department store, onetime (1931-35) Governor of Oregon; of heart disease; at his estate, "Menucha," east of Portland.
Died. Dr. Walther Simons. 75, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court; in Berlin. At the end of the World War, Dr. Simons was director of the Legal Department of the German Foreign Office. He went to the Peace Conference...
Some time later a farmer was milking his cows when a gaunt, pleasant man with flowing hair, wearing a damaged white suit, stepped into his barn and said, "Good morning!" This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard. Once a chemist for Hercules Powder Co., Jean...