Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Thomas Manton, 58, former senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan (TIME, June 5), was found guilty by a jury of "selling justice" to rich litigants and others for at least $235,600. Maximum penalty: two years in jail, $10,000 fine. He was not only the first Federal appellate court judge ever to be convicted, but the first ever to be tried for selling justice. More than 3,000 cases tried before him in 21 years may be reopened. He appealed...
...Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest...
...Americanism in the arts lags behind Pan-Americanism in politics there was evidence in Manhattan that it at least exists. Opened at the Riverside Museum was the first sizable exhibition ever held in the U. S. of contemporary art from Latin-American countries. Its somewhat anomalous front man: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, in his capacity as Chairman of the United States New York World's Fair Commission. To Henry Wallace's invitation, nine nations had responded with 343 works...
When a baby contentedly sucks his thumb after meals, don't slap his hand or bind it with tape. Leave him alone, says Dr. William Siddon Langford of Manhattan. Contrary to the beliefs of most parents and pediatricians, thumb-sucking in infants is a harmless pleasure. No scientist has ever proved, said Dr. Langford, talking to the American Academy of Pediatrics last week, that thumb-sucking 1) introduces germs into tonsils and stomach, 2) stimulates harmful sexual activity, or 3) causes receding jaws and buckteeth. Thumb-sucking may push milk teeth slightly out of line...
Wednesday Evening, June 7 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "Anacreon" Chernbini *Minuet (for String Orchestra) Bolzoni *"Madam Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini "Manhattan" Colla Midday--Night Shadows--Playtime (Conducted by the Composer) *Air, "Coleste Aida," from "Aida" Verdi Soloist: DARIO MAIANI, Tenor "Italia," Rhapsody Casella *Malaguena Lecuona *Perpetuum Mobile Paganini Played by the combined string sections *Spanish Dance de Falla *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...