Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John, when he recently became Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in charge of a new tax trap designed for Rearmament profiteers but so objectionable to many potent Britons that there was nothing to do but hastily scrap the design. Its inventor was the Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, now Prime Minister, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer when he introduced it in the House of Commons as the National Defense Contribution (TIME, May 3). This bill was to help hugely in paying for Rearmament by taxing of British firms on a sliding scale proportionate to the rate at which...
...last year (TIME, June 1, 1936), produced a welter of well-meaning mediocrity, was generally damned by the critics and was totally ignored by two States. Last week the second National art show opened to a very different reception in the rooms generally reserved for the National Academy of Design. Even the Virgin Islands and American Samoa were represented among some 526 pictures and statues. Most States held local exhibition and preliminary contests to choose the pictures to be sent. All critics were respectful, and the World-Telegram's Emil Genauer was able to write...
Gropius comes to School of Design as full professor. Pound "cuts" last class as prelude to trip around world...
...design is perceived at once as a contributing factor to the success of the painting. Even in so simple a subject as a head and shoulders it proves to be ingenuously built. The head is set on a broad base of white, in the neck-cloth, which narrows down, like the pedestal in a bust, and is framed by the strong orange of the coat...
Fifteen men entered the course without fellowships. The group represents almost every phase of street and highway management, including police enforcement, motor vehicle administration, driver psychology, education, highway planning and design and tra control engineering...