Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bothersome matter of "quickie" strikes, the unions described as "practically a thing of the past . . . necessary a few months ago when the shipowners were leaving no stone unturned to break the back of a struggling new union...
...enter the church. The interior resembles a mosque rather than a church, as a matter of fact it is particularly like the Hagia Sophia.) There are no chairs, which produces a wonderful effect of space. There are also no images. There are only framed sentences on the walls (like those in the Hagia Sophia).† One of these sentences reads: "Do not flatter your benefactor." The same woman who nodded approval before to me begins to weep and says: "Then there is nothing left at all." I reply: "I think that is perfectly all right," but she vanishes...
...once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
...Gogh. His idea is to combine the flowing designs and symbolism of Indian art with a strong Western technique. Into many of the paintings shown last week at Manhattan's Delphic Studios he had mixed so much diluted Western impressionism that nothing Indian was left but subject matter. Others seemed purely Oriental. But occasionally it seemed as if Artist Yawalkar might yet use Western art as well as Gauguin and Matisse used the art of the East...
...size of the appropriation. The other was the opposition of the Catholic Church, which has been most vociferous in denouncing Federal control of education. But the pressure for Federal aid had become so great that a year ago President Roosevelt appointed an Advisory Committee on Education to study the matter. As its chairman he chose University of Chicago's hard-working Floyd Wesley Reeves, now on leave from the University as personnel consultant to TVA. Last week the Committee made its report, removed 'the two stumbling blocks...