Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild has not gone far enough in fighting for the Guild shop. We cannot exist half slave and half free"; 4) workers in all departments of a newspaper are so mutually dependent upon its success that they can all profit only by one big union...
...director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...
...knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended act. Mr. Manson was made the arbiter of whether any given piece of carving was a work of art (duty free) or not. After inspecting two samples by Constantin Brancusi and Hans Arp, Mr. Manson conscientiously classified them with Italian tombstones as dutiable stuff...
...necessary but the show must go on. Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have been pointed out to Mr. Manson that an identical case came up in the U. S. in 1926 when customs officials denied duty-free entry to Brancusi's famous Bird in Space-a case decided in favor of the Bird...
Upshot was that Mr. Manson reconsidered. Last week Brancusi's egg and Arp's shape rested, duty free, in the bright little gallery of Guggenheim Jeune. Meanwhile, sprightly J. B. Manson had regretfully announced his resignation, at 58, as director of the Tate Gallery. Said he: "My doctor has warned me that my nerves will not stand any further strain. ... I have begun to have blackouts, in which my actions become automatic. Sometimes these periods last several hours. . . . I had one of these blackouts at an official luncheon in Paris recently, and startled guests by suddenly crowing like...