Word: logan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment...
Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...President to formulate a compromise on the question of enlarging the Supreme Court (TIME, June 14), last week made his choice and trotted it out before the Senate for a showdown. The bill he chose was modeled after one originally sponsored by Senators Hatch of New Mexico and Logan of Kentucky. Its chief terms as compared to those of the President's original proposal...
...migration of show business to the country in pursuit of vacationing customers did not become a general movement until the early, depressed 19305. It had started, however, in the preceding decade when stage-struck Eastern collegians-notably the Princeton group headed by James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Joshua Logan and Bretaigne Windust-began spending their vacations doing old and new plays in New England resort communities. In 1930 there were 15 active "straw hat" companies within a night's railroad ride of Manhattan. By 1934, numerically the peak season, Variety could list 105 summer stock companies. At first Broadway producers...
...York had the highest general excellence, Illinois' 18 exhibits showed the greatest heterogeneity. For the first time Easterners had a chance to see Carl Hallsthammar's fine Venus in Red Cherry, winner of the Logan prize at the Chicago Art Institute, and widely hailed by liberal critics as the finest work ever to win that prize. There were able landscapes by Dale Nichols and Frederick Tellander, but there was also Contemplation by Julius Moessel, a study of a chimpanzee squatting in a rhododendron bush and gazing sentimentally at a butterfly, and there was Sophie by Macena Barton, most...