Word: easel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Adolf Hitler and Anthony Eden spent last week making history in Europe (see pp. 19, 22), Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced his own major problem,, Recession, by turning lecturer. Sitting in his office chair, directing a pointer at an easel covered with price charts, he expounded his Administration's theory of price trends: That some are too high, some too low and the U. S. will not have prosperity till they are balanced...
...event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary...
With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
From Diego Rivera came five new paintings which showed the recent change in the artist's style. Because most Government walls have already been painted and also because the Cardenas Government no longer thinks it needs Painter Rivera's ardent brush, he has concentrated on quiet easel paintings and water colors, more closely observed and felt than his oldtime posterish designs...
...first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils...