Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold ruble 7's, sold only to foreigners, have proved better investments thus far than U. S. Treasury bonds. Certain U. S. citizens intuitive enough to realize that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would take the dollar off gold, bought Soviet 1,000 gold ruble bonds in Manhattan for 514 Hoover dollars each which they can now sell for 884 Roosevelt dollars. Such transactions the Soviet Government has facilitated, thus far, as the best possible propaganda...
...Delphic Studios last week, Mary Hoover, the only U. S. muralist ever to graduate from the chorus of Earl Carroll's Vanities, held her first Manhattan show with 28 bright, clear-cut canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
...Artist Hoover was born 27 years ago in Cuba, N. Y. where her father, a civil engineer, was laying railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating...
...Mary Hoover studied painting with lusty George Luks and Provincetown's Charles W. Hawthorne. She won several scholarships, continued her work at Fontainebleau and at Munich, suddenly developed a great interest in modern young Spanish painters. The murals and zinc plate etchings of Luis Quintanilla in particular fascinated her. She pulled wires to see if she might study under him or be his assistant...
...fame does now to the New Deal in the U. S. He was a great friend of Madrid's Socialist Boss Indalecio Prieto, had just been commissioned to do a series of enormous murals in the Casa del Pueblo and the University. Knowing nothing about Mary Hoover except that she ate well and drank well, Artist Quintanilla took her on as his assistant, taught her to paint in fresco, kept her slaving on a scaffold all summer long...