Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horace Pippin (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940), a disabled Negro war veteran who paints gaily colorful flower pieces and rustic scenes in his native Pennsylvania...
...those appointees, Social Registerite William Fellowes Morgan Jr., an original member of the Little Flower's "cabinet" (and the best dressed), had been an able commissioner of markets for eight years. Recently the Mayor began picking Mr. Morgan's aides without consulting him. Once when Mr. Morgan objected that he did not even know the appointees, the Little Flower retorted: "Try reading the telephone book instead of the Social Register, you might get to know more people." He also began screeching about some of Mr. Morgan's appointments. He had not time to see Mr. Morgan, straighten...
...boiled over when the Little Flower said that one of Mr. Morgan's unpaid assistants, Mrs. Preston Davie, must go. Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie, rich, beauteous, energetic, is no ordinary woman. A onetime leader of the Landon Volunteers, active in the G.O.P., she is vice president of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. Enlisting in Mr. Morgan's department as head of a wartime food-conservation program, big May Davie soon made feathers...
Many a critic decided last week that the Little Flower, who already had a lot of eggs under him, had been asked to hatch one that was just...
...Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck the Little Flower from...