Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which has in the past bridled at the sound of the Barnes tom-toms, was quietly preparing its 133rd annual exhibition of U. S. art. At the other end of the parkway from the museum, the academy last week remained equally remote from the attentions of Dr. Barnes and the Artists' Union. First visitors to the exhibition, however, thought that past criticisms from both sources had perhaps stimulated the academy's most vivid and inclusive show in years...
...psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson's great antagonist (and incidentally the first benefactor of the Pennsylvania Academy). Commissioned by Brother Francis, the painting was done during the hottest part of last July, which is why "they all look sort of droopy," as Mrs. Francis Biddle...
Last year statisticians announced that in this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week that calculation seemed conservative, for 1938 has started out with all the signs of being a measles year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois last week suffered epidemics of measles. And in the U. S. at large there were four times as many cases as at the same time last year. Extraordinary as this is (for 1934 and 1935 were measles years, and usually measles strikes heavily only twice in a decade), doctors who read their...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...most vexatious of economic problems -installment selling. If his department is not the nation's greatest authority on installment selling, it has one of the nation's greatest collections of installment selling statistics. Last week the National Retail Dry Goods Association had a convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. About 5,000 merchants listened without excitement while speakers told them that Federal taxation was oppressive, that labor unions were monopolistic, that dry goods retailers were the salt of the earth. Then Mr. Merriam gave a speech about installment selling...