Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority whom such an arrangement would not please fall into two camps. For those who would like the drawing power of a large social function to attract distant damsels, a class dance still remains a possibility. Those, on the other hand, who disdainfully mutter "Corn!" at the mention of a small orchestra, can get more jitters per dollar in Boston, where hot spots, in addition to good bands, alcohol and floor shows, have the virtue of being out of earshot from Cambridge...
...mention a "mass" meeting of 1,500 (probably all Northerners) who protested the D. A. R.'s action, but no mention is made of the four hundred-odd thousands of white citizens of Washington who do not want the theatres which they patronize contaminated by colored entertainers...
Omitted at first from the purple patches and golden numbers of New York World's Fair publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...
...Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention a few, protest this. Several months ago Loyalist courts cleared the POUMists of this charge and branded as "crude forgeries" the "proof" of their guilt...
Honorable Mention...