Word: intro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press one day last fortnight appeared a cartoon which, if it had been printed in the Communist Daily Worker or New Masses, would almost certainly have caused Representative Fish to intro duce a resolution in Congress and the Hearst Press to roar: "The Revolution is AT HAND." U. S. hunters outnumber the U. S. Army 30-to-1. The cartoon summoned them to take up arms against the Government. It showed a mighty army of sportsmen, scientists, bird-lovers and miscellaneous conservationists armed with double-barreled shotguns and high-powered rifles marching on Washington, forcibly dragging a bewhiskered "Congress...
...ends of his silky white mustache curling up wards. He has the unusual faculty of making casual listeners as enthusiastic about digging as he is, has been known to excite even blase newsmen. Ancient kings he has disinterred he refers to as "my friends," jokes about his duty to intro duce them to modern civilization. The shrewdness of his Colonial van Breestede ancestors undoubtedly had been of service to him in raising money for his projects, but he does it unostentatiously, without selfishness-for Science. In his long career he has written 21 books, many papers, is still writing, compiling...
...vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent the show two Indian paintings from her own collection. Artist John Sloan and Ethnologist Oliver ("Laughing Boy") La Farge helped prepare an elaborate ''Intro duction to American Indian Art" to sell to the customers...