Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes and what gives it its political potency, stated in the extremely loose terms of politics, is 'a kick in the pants for the public...
Senate Republicans last week failed to squeeze John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, into a political hole quite so uncomfortable as the one into which Senate Democrats had placed Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee (TIME, March 31). Mr. Huston had been caught lobbying on Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Raskob could be caught lobbying on Prohibition, the score between the party leaders would be even...
...BRIDGE?Hart Crane?Liveright...
...Poet Hart Crane was one of 16 signers of a Proclamation appearing in transition (experimentalist Paris quarterly), June 1929. Said the Proclamation: "We hereby declare that: (1) The revolution in the English language is an accomplished fact. . . . (12) The plain reader be damned." Hart Crane is noted among left-wing litterateurs for his "mighty line," is credited with writing the mightiest line now extant. In this book, a series of poems on the U. S., mighty lines abound. Examples...
...Poet Hart Crane, young (31) but with greying hair, is native to Garrettsville, 0., son & heir to Candy Tycoon Clarence Crane. Hart Crane preferred poetry to business, went to Manhattan (1922), supported life by writing copy for J. Walter Thompson, Sweet's Architectural Catalog, others. In 1924, living in a house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, Poet Crane gazed at the Brooklyn Bridge, thought of writing a long Whitmanesque poem on the U. S. While he wrote it he moved about to Paterson, N. J., Isle of Pines (Cuba), Pasadena, Paris, Marseilles. Another book: White Buildings...