Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges awarded four instead of the usual two Altman prizes to U. S.-born citizens. Most important of the Altman prizes ($700) went to Sidney E. Dickinson, conservative portraitist and onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale...
Players on the two squads, a total of 35, leave for southern parts early next week. The Varsity trip schedule: Wednesday, April 1, Fordham, at New York; Thursday, Dickinson, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Friday, Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; Saturday, Temple, at Philadelphia...
...Defense. The New Deal did not pick up the blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce...
...Deal with these unusual testimonials. Whether all the Governors had a right to do so was at least debatable. Governor Davey of Ohio, who has a Republican Attorney General, had to have his brief filed by his secretary. These briefs sounded out the new defense. Said Lawyer Dickinson: "The issue of Federal power is at stake - whether there lurk interstices and crevices in the Constitution through which Federal power may have sifted away...
Arguments. Every one of the 320 seats in the Court Chamber was filled during these arguments, and no sooner was a seat vacated than it was instantly refilled by those who had been standing in a queue outside. Attorneys, watching critically to see what New Dealer Dickinson could do with a case that in the shadow of the Schechter decision looked far from hopeful, credited him with an able lawyer-like job. Curious laymen who hoped the Justices would pink the New Deal's attorneys fore & aft with embarrassing questions were disappointed. Neither the argument of Mr. Dickinson...