Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incurred today. Nor is there much immediate prospect of skyrocketing assessed valuations to make tax levies appear smaller and debt burdens less onerous. . . . Very few municipalities with overall, net, tax-supported debts in excess of 15% of full taxable value escaped more or less serious default in the depression period. Very few whose overall debts fell below 10% became conspicuously involved in default...
...Phoenix, Ariz, in 1922, and the number of cases has steadily in creased. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service announced that 1938 promises to be a peak year for undulant fever, with almost 2,000 cases reported to date, twice as many as in the same period of 1937. Hardest hit is the southwest cattle region...
...Sick and tired, Philadelphia's Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson announced he would presently take a two-month vacation. Instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer accused him of making a deal with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned...
...want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first six months, he insisted on references to cover that period. When the servant problem got bad enough, Ruth and Helen really came to believe in evil jinn...
...when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where he spent weekends for ten or twelve years. Surfaces...