Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shows the Republican leaders, Tammany Hall Congressmen, Philadelphia machine Congressmen, Mellon-Pittsburgh machine Congressmen, Thompson [Chicago] machine Congressmen and Representatives from other great cities do not believe in enforcing the prohibition...
Rich Miss Radclyffe Hall, author of the suppressed Lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (TIME, Dec. 31), contributed $5,000 to the fund, last week, after selling for that sum to the Glasgow Art Gallery a portrait of the late Mrs. George Batten by John Singer Sargent. It had been bequeathed to her by Mrs. Batten...
...hope by parting with one of my most treasured possessions," said Miss Radclyffe Hall, "that I shall be able to inaugurate a sort of 'gift in kind' movement to help the miners...
...impressive result of one such meeting was displayed, last week, in Manhattan?a five-ton marble statue of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette by Sculptor Jo Davidson. The work was commissioned by the State of Wisconsin, and will shortly be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Washington, whither each State may send the images of its two most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored...
...roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau. There were cries: "Sit down! Sit down!" Heads turned, international business ceased. Jo Davidson sat down...