Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What remained true was that, from a political standpoint, 150 rich men could do much to make the country forget Nine Old Men. Politicians calculated that with the Wages & Hours bill which he proposed fortnight ago, plus a red-hot new hunt for malefactors of great wealth, the President might recover some of the popularity he had lost on the Supreme Court issue...
Called The Hunt, the Gropper picture is a sombre scene in deep yellows. Armed men and dogs are coursing through a scrubby thicket under a hill. The grim haste of the figures plainly implies that The Hunt's quarry is Man. Explained Artist Gropper: "I felt the irony of the hunt-the sportsman's equal pleasure in hunting game and hunting Negroes-and I decided to commit it to paint...
...Metropolitan last week, critics and gallery-goers had a chance to inspect The Hunt together with the 16 other contemporary U. S. paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin...
...once declared: "I have two sons, and half a million would probably make loafers out of them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber...
...Mexican exhibit, at Hunt Hall, includes over two hundred photographs illustrating this nation's modern "renaissance" of building design in the construction of every important type of building from the simplest workers' houses and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports...