Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into a war than to keep her out. The amended resolution passed the Senate last February, is now waiting action by the House. While Congressional ears were still tingling from Stanley Baldwin's charges, President Roosevelt's tactics were to send a special message...
...between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw up a set of general rules for the Masters to follow in their choice of students, and if the Masters are unable to abide by them, the Committee should then, but only then, assume control. The Committee has been far less dictatorial this year than last...
Back in Washington, President Roosevelt sent to Congress his long-delayed message on housing: "May I," he asked, "draw your attention to some important suggestions for legislation which should tend to improve conditions for those who live in houses, those who repair and construct houses, and those who invest in houses...
...different was the meeting in Rome of the experts whom Italy's Mussolini, Austria's Dollfuss and Hungary's Gömbbs had named to draw up an economic agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy...
...married Josefa Bayeu, sister of an influential painter, who unobtrusively bore him 20 children (only one of whom reached maturity) and who as unobtrusively died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere...