Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire cotton belt "telling the people just how they are being hoodwinked by this policy of destroying cotton, wheat and corn." Politically proud that he is a "dirt farmer," Governor Talmadge also sounded off characteristically with declarations that Secretary Wallace should be sentenced to two years behind a plow, that he knew little about Undersecretary Tugwell except that "they tell me he is poison ivy to the farmers...
Candidate for the most banal picture was a meat-calendarish illustration of Putnam Called From the Plow by John Ward Dunsmore, A. N. A. Slickest portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
...Pied Pipers" All last week the nation's attention was held fast by the performance of two politicians, a priest and a onetime plow manufacturer. No public issue of any consequence was involved. No principle was at stake. No precedent was established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering mass of publicity...
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...
...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...