Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that took second prize: a reclining nude by one Robert Graham...
...shortcomings of fellow members of their profession. Last week Cleveland newspapermen were choosing up sides over such a question of ethics. Reporter Julian Griffin of the Press, substituting on the City Hall beat, had become annoyed by the constant presence in the reporters' room of one Joe Graham, WPA supervisor of a map rehabilitation project and onetime reporter for the News. So Reporter Griffin took a picture of Joe Graham at work (see cut) and wrote a story to go with it in the Press. Excerpts...
Result of this story was to get Joe Graham fired. Other newspapermen, almost as indignant as Joe, got him a publicity job with a small county fair near Cleveland. Last week Joe Graham paid City Hall a return visit, searched in vain for Reporter Griffin, curled up on his favorite bench and went to sleep again...
...Deal-approved amendments to the wage-hour law when they reached the House floor, or grant no rule at all. Chairlady Norton, whose crisp black (undyed) hair belies by 20 years her age (64), feared the committee would grant her only an "open" rule. That would let Graham Barden of North Carolina substitute on the House floor his own wage-hour amendments, which are anathema to the New Deal. Mr. Barden's amendments would take 2,000,000 workers out of wage-hour law benefits; permit their employers to pay less than 25? an hour, work them more than...
...Angeles' swank Town House staged, at Warners' instigation, a dinner for 26 males who decided she had more "oomph"' than any girl in town. "Oomph," said Dudley Field Malone, "is a very beautiful thing that convention demands be clothed." Said Screenwriter Graham Baker: "Oomph is something in a girl which begets propositions not proposals, gets her chased instead of chaste." As the Oomph Girl, Cinemactress Sheridan was more photographed, talked about, gossip-columned than any recognized Hollywood star...