Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has not clearly been the dominant figure in U. S. public life: In his one big political battle of the year, over the Supreme Court, he was worsted. Had any one man been primarily responsible for that defeat, he would be a towering figure of politics, but in fact-while many figures, including Senators Wheeler of Montana, Borah of Idaho, Burke of Nebraska and Vice President Garner, contributed in one way and another-Franklin Roosevelt largely wrought his own defeat by antagonizing opinion in Congress...
Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey...
...cities, the employment of 5,000 artists. The year was also notable for two great gifts to the public by rich men: the Mellon collection to the U. S. Government and the exceptional Bache collection to the State of New York. Late in the autumn publishers awoke to the fact that no season in many years had been so thickly plummed with instructive, inexpensive books...
...important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking, not the subconscious, mind. To many critics the year in U. S. painting was full of striking evidence of this growth of intellectual freedom side...
This vast gallonage obviously cannot be consumed by any small group of connoisseurs. It must have a mass market. This fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...