Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could be confirmed, but by the time Reporter Sprigle, aided by an unlimited expense account and private detectives, had got all the data he wanted, the less inquisitive Senate had long since done its job. By the end of last week, Reporter Sprigle's series, among other things, had told in detail how Justice Black had been given a gold card which made him a life member of the Klan and how he addressed a Birmingham Klorero on Sept. 2, 1926, sharing...
Tokyo papers loudly complained last week that British bankers, responsive to their Government, were putting on pressure to force a Japanese reply by suddenly refusing to discount the sterling bills of Japanese exporters. Whether or not this was being done, Japanese Premier Prince Konoye meanwhile scared the British Admiralty to issue instructions to unescorted British merchantmen, bidding them submit to search by Japanese warships if challenged in Chinese waters. The Admiralty saved as much face as possible by adding that after such a search the Japanese warship concerned "must" report its findings to the Admiralty, as must also the searched...
...Trotskyist Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) and his husky Russian wife, Eliena Krylenko. whose brother is a Stalinist.* While white-maned Mr. Eastman works at his witty scribbles, blonde Mrs. Eastman teaches dancing, paints. After studying in Moscow, in Paris and under Manhattan's Jean Charlot, she has done capable portraits of most of her friends except her husband, whom she thinks she has yet to paint successfully...
Last week many a white guest joined the Star of Bethlehem's black congregation at the unveiling of Mrs. Eastman's Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion, done in oil on pressed wood. So delighted were they all with the artist's vivid orange, green, lavender, purple, red and yellow figures, pretty Galilean hills and jagged Calvary that a collection for her was taken up forthwith, netting...
Forger or not, old Thomas Wise had done England more good than harm. His 7,000-volume library, whose catalog alone fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition...