Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view on Washington walls...
...From Mr. Kent's Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which...
This minuscule exhortation caused a flutter of official concern and unofficial merriment in Washington. An uninhibited artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid...
...farm near Ausable Forks, N. Y., Artist Kent was surprised to hear of all the fuss. "I think it's a swell thing when people want independence and I think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
...years, the accent of AP was on straight news. But because of the changing needs of its member newspapers AP gradually added comics, comment, cookery, other "features." One offering, used regularly by over 100 of the 1,400 dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this Capitol comment. Not gossipy but increasingly spicy...