Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because its majority is divided and because he had no new idea to spring, Franklin Roosevelt signalized this session of Congress by not demanding of it some major program to improve society. His "appeasement" of Business for recovery, now a bad joke, was to have been an executive job done by Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign...
Last week the Times's, lawyers put the men who run the paper on the stand. Managing Editor James testified that the memorandum was "a joke" and the word "spies" referred only to "voluntary informants." Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the Times, said that the paper had once had an espionage system but has eliminated it. Publisher Sulzberger admitted the Times had kept close watch on some of its employes, defended the practice as an effort "to avoid raising issues with the Guild." While he was on the stand Publisher Sulzberger took the opportunity of declaring himself...
...village of Les Ribierés, France, Dragoon René Drouet borrowed an automobile, sped through the streets screaming: "Hitler is marching on Paris!", started a panic. Arrested, facing military discipline, Dragoon Drouet faltered: "I thought it would be a good joke...
...painting, swarthy little Tom Benton was for years a self-confessed and monumental joke. In the last decade he has become a boisterous, likable candidate for the honor which awaits any artist who will seize and work mightily with the material of America. Benton has never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating...
...company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife-or his mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." In London last month Dr. Gogarty sued Kavanagh for libel...