Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the horse-and-dog lovers of Fayette County, Build flourished. For his heroic statue of Guy Axworthy, famed trotting stallion, he was reported to have received $15,000. He made a bust of a dead superintendent of schools, of the founder of the Lexington Leader, statues of several champion great Danes, of a trotting mare and sulky. Then he disappeared...
...memorial exhibition was last week staged at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Selected with the collaboration of three top-flight artists-Guy Pène du Bois, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll-it honored their friend William James Glackens, who died last...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Minn., one-time Interim Senator Guy Victor Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
...Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying...
...Guy W. Ballard and harp, custodians of the most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing...