Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some or Sargent's paintings have cracked somewhat," he said, "but this can be prevented if proper care is taken in hanging and transporting the canvases. Mr. Sargent was careful not only in his artistic technique but also in mixing his oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally...
Business in Government. Governor Smith enunciated his belief that business principles should be applied to State Government, and cited examples of how this had been done: a) by building public works with bond issues instead of out of current revenues; b) by forming public corporations to finance self-sustaining projects like ports and bridges...
What had New York's Governor done for agriculture? He had, in 1920, appointed a commissioner to investigate an appendage of the Legislature which was supposed to be helping farmers. As a result, the appendage was overhauled. So were the co-operative marketing laws. Co-operative marketing associations multiplied during the decade from...
...week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
...disadvantage of being a Congressman is that you have to talk about one topic for months, years. On trains back to Washington last week, Congressmen were still talking, after a decade of it, about farm relief. Politically if not economically, something-must-be-done...