Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night similar meetings were held at the Union, on the question of "What Caused the Constitution?" and at Dunster House, where "Wait Whitman's America" was treated. The speakers were Henry Nash Smith and Charles Miller, American Civilization counselors...
...summer, to the smoke-blackened, pseudo-Renaissance pile of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh come canvases from all over Europe and the U. S. for the Carnegie International, world's biggest competitive show of contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn...
Last month an international jury of artists* examined the 348 pictures Jack Nash had hung. Each judge had 15 stickers the first day and seven slips of paper the second, strolled through the galleries, licking, sticking, narrowing down the field for the final choices. Last week 5,000 well-dressed people surged up the Institute's broad marble stairs to open Pittsburgh's social season and the 37th International. They spent more time looking at each other than they did at the pictures. But all of them at least glanced at Georgia Jungle. Jack Nash, as usual...
Also named was Henry Nash Smith, Freshman American Civilization Counselor, who has been chosen executive secretary of the Plan. This office is a new one, while Malone succeeds to the post vacated by Paul Buck, associate professor of History, who resigned one month ago upon his appointment as an assistant dean of the faculty...
...choosing two such capable leaders as Dumas Malone and Henry Nash Smith, President Conant has given the American Civilization Plan a new lease on life. After drifting along without unified direction since Professor Buck's resignation as chairman a month ago, the Plan is at last in efficient hands. Those hands have a clear task ahead of them, for they must resuscitate an idea which has all but perished from administrative neglect and unfavorable publicity...