Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just after one midnight last week 200 masked men drove up to the Edgecombe County jail in Tarboro, N. C., gained admittance by pretending they brought a prisoner. Silently they drew revolvers, covered the deputy sheriff, brought out Negro Oliver Moore, 35, who was being held for trial in September on a charge of attacking Ethel and Lucile Morgan, white sisters aged...
From the Manhattan office of President Frederic Newlin Price of the American Art Dealers Association came announcement of a model contract, defining rights and privileges of dealers and artists. Executive committees representing the Dealers Association and the American Artists Professional League drew up the agreement, agreed to abide by it. Long a worker for such an agreement was the late William Sherman Potts, president of the American Society of Miniature Painters. For as Dealer Price observed: "It is time the art business should be put on a business basis. A generation ago it was a gamble. That...
Died. Gustave Frohman, 75, oldtime theatrical producer, tour manager for William Gillette, Margaret Anglin, Maude Adams, John Drew, onetime office boy of Horace Greeley, brother of Producer Daniel Frohman; after a four-week illness; at his home in Manhattan...
Most U. S. correspondents drew a red Communist herring across the issue. But actual causes of the strike seemed to be: 1) demand of a 1?-per-hour wage increase by workers; 2) the refusal of workers to divide with their employers the burden of workers' insurance, obligatory since July 1. The employers refused to arbitrate, largely because reluctant to reopen their plants while business depression continues...
From childhood, says Cowboy James, he liked to draw pictures, mostly of animals. He never drew from life, always from memory. Says he: ''People often ask me how I get to catch horses in action, or how I get my models for my drawings and paintings. I've never sketched from life and never watched any animals with intentions of sketching it. And to the people who ask I say that I get my models through my tail bone, and from the many connections it got with the cantle-board of my saddle." He claims never to have...