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Secretary Henry A. Wallace and AAA Administrator Chester C. Davis, farmers both, fired Jerome N. Frank, AAA chief counsel, and at least three of his "liberal" satellites, none of whom have callouses from a plow handle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hoffman, Lachaise, Noguchi | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...plow has made the furrow (BANG!) but the sword defends it (BANG!). . . . To us Fascists fighting is more important than victory itself (BANG!), for when fighting is surcharged with mighty will-power then victory cannot fail (BANG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cannon Speech | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...that time he declared in favor of legislation to provide "security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age...." Thereafter he appointed a Committee on Economic Security, which in turn gathered around it a group of expert advisers to plow the virgin field of "social security" and raise a fruitful crop of legislative ideas. Last week's White House meeting which the President addressed was, in a sense, a general breaking of hard tough soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Fellow-Poet Mark Van Doren hails Jesse Stuart as an "American Burns." Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arma Virumque | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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