Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground-floor hallway of the east wing of the White House hangs a large portrait of Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, showing her in a red gown and an aloof expression, with a white dog at her feet. The work of 65-year-old Howard Chandler Christy, it has the characteristics that have made him the most commercially successful U. S. artist, the painter of such celebrities as Mussolini, William Randolph Hearst, James Farley, Chief Justice Hughes, Vice President Garner...
Five months ago, after it had been revealed that Howard Chandler Christy's official Sesquicentennial poster, We, the People, had been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...
...graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible...
Born. To the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, Duchess of Norfolk, 22, England's youngest duchess, and Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard. Duke of Norfolk, 30. England's Premier Duke and Earl; their first child, a daughter; in London...
...Acquitania are Vincent R. Bailey '40, stroke; Howard M. Turner, Jr., '40, 7; Samuel M. Pierce '40, 6; Richard Fay '40, 5; George von L. Meyer, Jr., '38, 4; George C. Cutler, Jr., '40, 3; John S. Stillman '40, 2; John G. Gilkey, Jr., '39 bow; Nathan M. Plaut '39, cox. Robert Homans '40 and John H. Ijams will go along as substitutes...