Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pretty were a new set of postage stamps, issued for Manchoukuo last week. some bearing the portrait of Japan's Puppet Henry Pu Yi, others illustrated with Manchurian scenes. During the week Manchoukuo paper money made its first appearance. Also Japan made a bow to U. S. public opinion by appointing as an "adviser" to the Manchoukuo Government enterprising U. S. Citizen George Bronson Rea. "He is the publisher of The Far Eastern Review of Shanghai," remarked the Associated Press, "and is a stanch defender of Japan's policy in Manchuria...
...Frank Gilman Allen to hang in the Boston State House, Governor Allen chose Manhattan Artist Henry Louis Wolff. Frank Gilman Allen is a big-handed leather tycoon who "would rather pick blueberries than do anything else" and can outpick his chauffeur ten quarts to six. Artist Wolff painted a portrait of a benignly smiling man with his big hands casually in his trousers pockets. Subject Allen was pleased. But last week in Boston the State...
...State Art Commission had protested another Governor's official portrait for the State House, because the subject's thumbs were too prominent. The subject was former Governor, now U. S. Senator David Ignatius Walsh, who once picked and sold blueberries for a living. When...
...Walsh approved, the Commission acquiesced. Last week in Manhattan, lest people think he could not paint hands, Artist Wolff said: "There was no question in former Governor Allen's mind of the propriety of his having his hands in his pockets. . . . However, if the portrait has to be changed in this respect, it can easily be done...
...Government announced that May 6, 1933 (first anniversary of the assassination), a new French postage stamp will be issued bearing Paul Doumer's portrait...