Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich larder of documents, reports, memoirs, novels on the War and its aftermath which future historians must digest, a new titbit was added last week. William Randolph Hearst's able, convivial...
...times that amount. __ He had hindered her selling a picture to the Kansas City Art Museum by asserting that her picture which she believes is da Vinci's La Belle Ferronierc was a copy of an original in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18, 1928 ct scq.). Commented Art Digest at the time: "If Sir Joseph had not settled the famous case of Hahti v. Duveen . . . The Art Digest on authority which it considers infallible, would have expected a witness to have been produced . . . who would have sworn that he painted at least 20 pictures that have passed into...
...others. His fellows like him for his affability, attribute his apparent diffidence to his partial deafness. He drives a Chrysler car to and from Pasadena, where he lives with his wife, the former Margaret Watson, and their three children. A facile writer, he types his own copy for Aero Digest, for which he is radio editor and a monthly contributor...
...breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted...
...Gardiner, president of the Navy League of America and volunteer watchdog of the U. S. fleet (TIME, May 12), took to the air with a radio appeal for the postponement until December. He spoke of "rising tides of doubt," insisted the country should have more time in which to digest the pact. Though he professed to be neutral on the treaty itself, Mr. Gardiner's position squared exactly with that of Senator Johnson. There was little doubt that at heart the Navy League would be pleased to see the whole London agreement go by the board...