Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt last week took a personal hand in one of the knottiest problems that had ever plagued a bequest-hungry U.S. art museum. He asked Congress for $195,000 so that Washington's palatial new National Gallery could get its latest rich bequest-that of Philadelphia's late Peter Arrell Brown Widener-out of hock. The money was owed for a Pennsylvania gift tax which the Widener will laid on the beneficiary...
...greatest remaining private art hoard in the U.S. (valued up to $50,000,000), the Widener collection was a plum fit to water directorial mouths in any museum in the world. No private collection has matched its set of 14 Rembrandts, few its Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine Raphaels in the U.S.), its magnificent Titians and Van Dycks...
...Early, ailing at 68, announced that it was to go intact to the National Gallery. Catch was that the art-rich National Gallery was short of cash. When the Pennsylvania Legislature last year tried to waive the gift tax, jealous Philadelphians, who wanted the Widener hoard for their own Museum of Art, slapped down that gesture in short order...
Chaplains will play lawyer on Saturday morning at the Law School when officers in training at the Army Chaplain School take part in a moot court simulating actual court-martial procedure. Part of the four-week course for ministers at the Germanic Museum deals with military justice, and this trial will climax five hours of army law training...
Four weeks of classes in Andover Hall and Semitic Museum turn civilian ministers into Army officers prepared to be assigned to posts anywhere from a hospital to the front lines. All these men have had at least three years of practical experience after being ordained, and the school teaches them Army discipline and methods...