Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prix de Rome is the choicest plum for U. S. art students who are under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted...
...Pennsylvania's cinema censors, plump and pretty Peggy Palmer, relict of the late Red-baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time...
...went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost three hours' deliberation found Donald "not guilty by reason of insanity...
...York's Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. meanwhile ordered 41 implicated financiers, attorneys and stockbrokers to appear next week in supreme court; accused them of siphoning $6,000,000 worth of marketable securities from their various companies and replacing them with securities of questionable value; got temporary injunctions restraining various of the 41 in varying degrees from buying or selling securities...
...days later, Trust-Buster-in-Chief Arnold, who knows the value of publicity, got together with Mr. Cummings and put out a statement making their position clear. There was no earthly reason, they said, even though they were conducting a criminal anti-trust suit, why they should not also consider any "practical solution" which was "of major and immediate benefit to the industry, to competitors and to the public...