Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning period, a good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only a grief, but a turning point...
Durban, Natal, South Africa: The color bar is strictly enforced. . . . Illicit intercourse with native women renders any white liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years...
Nevertheless the resignation of M. de Laveleye was accepted by the King, and this tactical sop to opponents of Amnesty foreshadowed a period of political haggling, possible compromise and modification of the law. Brussels wiseacres agreed that the hard-headed Belgian public has been totally unimpressed, one way or the other, by Premier van Zeeland's grand transatlantic mission. They consider that M. & Mme van Zeeland have had harmless White House fun, that their Premier must now once more devote himself exclusively to Belgium's earnest knitting...
Decorated by Italians of diluted talent or by conscientious U. S. beautifiers, the walls and domes of many a courthouse, library and State Capitol still witness the sad state of mural art during the late igth Century. Strongest and soundest murals of the period were done in 1876 by Henry Adams' friend John La Farge for Trinity Church in Boston, and later for Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. But La Farge worked in the European tradition, had little influence on his best successors...
Painter James Daugherty, 48, studied in London under Frank Brangwyn when he was 16 and 17. tried commercial illustrating on his return to the U. S. Of this period he says, "The general idea was that I didn't eat regularly." During the War he got a job painting camouflage in the shipyards at Newport News, Va. For the last ten years he has lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia...