Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High above Manhattan in Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room one evening last week Chairman Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel, Governor Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island, President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design and many another notable sat down to dine in honor of the opening of the National Exhibition of American Art. Also present among these friends of culture was husky Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey. Up to him strolled Lou Wedemar, Universal News Serviceman who covered the Lindbergh case. Said Hearstling Wedemar to New Jersey's Governor...
...February Rob Godfrey went on re lief, was put to teaching WPA art classes. Last autumn Rob Godfrey painted a bright portrait of his wife looking attractive and intense in a sport coat and plaid scarf. She thought it was good enough to submit for the National Academy of Design show. He did not. Hadn't they turned down his portrait of her in an evening gown last year? Anneliese God frey kept arguing morning, noon & night. Finally on the last possible day, just to please her, Rob Godfrey submitted his portrait. Out of more than 5,000 entries...
...gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
Dean Sperry finds 100% employment of his graduates, Professor Menhinick of the Regional Planning Department of the School of Design discovers not only full employment, but an unsurfeited demand for more technicians, Dean Hudnut of the School of Design writes in this issue in a generally favorable manner, and Dean Donham of the Business School finds 90% employment of his graduates throughout the depression. These reports are highly significant and especially Dean Donham's, whose position makes him uniquely qualified to feel the pulse of business activity...
...George Lansbury in Manhattan last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gave a blue-&-white silk scarf, with an all-over design featuring the letters PAX. Before donning his scarf, and heading westward for peace meetings in 18 cities during the next month, Pacifist Lansbury spoke at a large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First...