Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recession appears to be purely psychological, the result of Capital's mass pessimism about the future, and a consequent reluctance to make future commitments. The Recession is also remarkable because, of all the men in the U. S. who had the statistical information about it at hand, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently the last man to see it coming. Rapid but not remarkable were the first of the moves with which he undertook, last week, to battle Recession...
...Berryman (see cut, p. 15). The mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source and usage being unknown and unanalyzed. . . . Alas, too, too many artists are mere screwballs intellectually...
...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
...publicity man glum, poker-faced Charles ("Charley") Michelson, chief publicist for the No. 1 U. S. citizen. Said Franklin Roosevelt's pressagent at the Association's dinner in his honor: "There is an impression . . . that I sit at the President's right hand,* sharing his innermost thoughts, and that no Congressman or Senator can make a speech or take a drink without consulting me. Unfortunately, that picture is not exactly accurate...