Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensations are never any prettier than what he observes, and what he observes in Manhattan is apparently seldom pretty. When he draws a nude model he shows that her feet are dirty and her face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling...
Nobody knows how many hoboes there are in the U. S. Nobody knows how many of them are women. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins says there are 6,800. "BoxCar Bertha," whose ghost-written autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright...
...Benedictine builder of Catholic University in Peiping, until last fortnight head of the philosophy department at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. Monsignor O'Toole and the two younger priests patterned their Alliance after a group in Manhattan led by Dorothy Day, onetime Socialist, and Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical Catholics Day & Maurin maintain a House of Hospitality and an Easton, Pa. farm commune for Catholic proletarians. What they call "the dynamite of Catholic teaching" and submit as an alternative to Communism is contained in the labor...
Last week in Chicago, the whole Weems incident was cleared up. In the office of Lawyer Francis Heisler appeared Negro Frank Weems, alive and whole. After being beaten he had hidden for a week in a hobo "jungle," then traveled north, had finally told his story to the Workers' Defense League. The Rev. Claude Williams and Willie Sue Blagden might have suffered in vain, but safe in Chicago Frank Weems planned to sue his floggers for $25,000 damages...
Maverick studied his constituents with more thoroughness than most politicians, even made a trip through Texas disguised as a hobo (see cut). Even before Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. was functioning. Maverick had started a relief experiment, the Diga colony, on a cooperative, barter basis. He was elected to Congress in 1934. has since made a name for himself as a progressive New Dealer. His greatest admiration is not Roosevelt but Senator Norris...