Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measures against the Jews. Soothingly the Proclamation told Germans that they need not be alarmed by the weakness of their stockmarket and other signs of economic strain: "German economy is being so constructed that at any time it can be completely independent from other countries. . . . This is succeeding. The idea of blockading Germany can be buried as an entirely ineffective weapon. We have no more worries about food...
...Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter Bruegel, to Honoré Daumier, to James A. McNeill Whistler...
...idea that working people ought to get a chance at Art dates precisely from the time when the Industrial Revolution put an end to handicraft. Its prophets in Victorian England were William Morris and John Ruskin; one form of its fulfillment now is the Federal Art Project's Community Centre program (TIME, Sept. 5). Meanwhile, strict Marxists interpret the social use of art narrowly to mean that art should be an instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit...
...every retired Californian over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
...Extended its wheat export subsidy plan to flour. Fortnight ago W. Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman and Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas, suggested the idea. Last week AAA announced it expected to dispose of 5,000,000 bbl. abroad...