Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other San Franciscans agree with Reader deFord that their Fair city can boast a tougher part of town...
...hardly fair to call our movement a 'revolt'," Mrs. J. Anton DeHaas, wife of J. Anton DeHass, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationship, said yesterday in referring to the break in the ranks of the D.A.R. as revealed several days...
...gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
Indian Nations. For prejudice-breaking value and charm nothing in the Fair surpassed an exhibition of American Indian art, housed in one wing of the handsome Federal building. To two kinds of visitors it gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
...value; but nevertheless the colossal island built into the Pacific Ocean does contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture as to bring considerable comment--not only because of its grand scale, but also because of its ingenuity of arrangement and high artistic quality...