Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone paid to the U. S. $37,692.29 on his bill of $50,000 in fines and $7,692.29 court costs for the offense of income tax evasion, for which he has served six years, eight months of a ten-year sentence, since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz...
...Berlin was begun a great "treason trial," whose size and scope was an embarrassment to the Nazis themselves. Out of the yard of Berlin's grim Moabit Prison rolled a green police van one morning last week. Through Berlin's streets it rumbled, finally pulled up in the well-kept grounds of the dread People's Court building on the Bellevuestrasse. Three prisoners-Ernst Niekisch, Dr. William Drexler and Karl Troegler-emerged from the van and were hustled into the great hall of the Court. On the bench sat their judges-three red-robed justices, a police...
Last week most U. S. businessmen prepared to write off 1938, if not with pleasant memories at least with grim thankfulness. Steel production, at 52% of capacity, was double that of a year ago. The stockmarket, though dawdling, was doing so on a plateau 25% above 1937's year-end levels. Virtually every index of production or distribution-building, power, car loadings -had enjoyed an upward surge...
Paintings would be better if more young painters knew their minds so well, but in 1932, after nearly eight hard years of dishwashing and other grim jobs, Guglielmi became aware that "painting could be a means of communication." To Louis Guglielmi this was a solemn discovery, solemnly followed up. Working with the painful slowness of a virtuoso who hates virtuosity, living on the Federal Art Project's $22.77 a week, he has finished in five years 16 paintings which he is willing to show. Last week they were shown at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery in his first...
When Montana's grim-jawed old Senator Tom Walsh, newly wed, died just before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when...