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...Artist. Where the painter of these remarkable canvases might be, nobody who looked at them knew. After France fell, 67-year-old Vlaminck (rhymes with plank) was reported to be well treated by the Nazis (TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...
...labor. A personal and political dry, he was a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, once traveled all the way to Stockholm for an international prohibition conference. All during Prohibition, he stuck to ice-cream sodas. But he stumped for Al Smith, backed the Democrats' repeal plank in 1932, now takes an occasional drink...
London Fabians heard another speech from Home Secretary Herbert Morrison. In it the tousled, persistent Socialist hammered down another plank in a platform which, he thinks, will insure Britain a secure place in the postwar world. His views were not necessarily those of the Government; rather, they were indicative of a wide section of British thinking. He spotlighted the deepening concern of all Britons over postwar bread & cheese...
...from Missouri had wanted to be shown. Wendell Willkie waded into Missouri last week and gave them a sample of showmanship, sagacity and spunk. When he left he had: 1) laid down a well-hewn platform for 1944, which he could develop later, plank by plank, in further speeches; 2) proved to all other G.O.P. candidates that he is still the man they have to beat...
When Governor Warren made a good suggestion about the labor plank, I appointed him to draw up the plank. We adopted his plank, except that I was the one who wrote, and insisted on adding, a guarantee of collective bargaining. I appointed Governor Hickenlooper [Iowa] to write a more extensive veterans plank, and our committee adopted his draft...