Word: plaudits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan from runaway inflation by imposing a regimen of austerity. He combed the national budget, once caught Japanese officials charging geisha girls to "miscellaneous" on their expense accounts. Dodge gave Japan its first balanced budget in 19 years. For his work of stabilizing the Japanese yen, his most valued plaudit came from a Japanese Cabinet minister, who reported: "The thieves are now stealing money instead of goods...
...Time's" plaudit appeared in a feature on Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, whose work is now on exhibition in Boston. Gropius, better known for his pre-war projects in Germany, was a key figure in the designing of the Graduate Center...
...82nd birthday, Painter Henri Matisse received an abstract plaudit from Painter Pablo Picasso, who wrote: "No painter has ever tickled painting to such bursts of laughter...
Flannery grew up in a house where an easel and the American Stud Book were both handy. His father, a Kentuckian, remembered his son's birth as the year when Plaudit won the Kentucky Derby (1898). Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery...