Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Augur, Holabird, Jr., Chicago, Illinois--Francis W. Parker School...
Directors Cahill and Parker are them selves surprised at the way small towns and cities have responded. In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than...
...carrying out his second aim, Director Cahill has shown himself a remarkably astute social engineer. His first move was to make hefty, dark-eyed, Thomas C. Parker of Richmond, Va., his Assistant and Regional Director for the South. Parker, like Cahill, was devoted to the idea of building up community art centres. They began in the South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington...
ELSIE SMITH PARKER Lincoln...
TIME derived its explanation (TIME, July 25, p. 4) from able lexicographical authority, but in the face of such a common-sense consensus acknowledges its misguidance. Thanks to Readers Parker and Hooper for two more bacony phrases...