Word: potters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate last week experimented with confirming presidential nominations to the sub-Cabinet in open executive session. The subject of the experiment was Joseph Potter Cotton appointed Undersecretary of State by President Hoover. The experiment was not successful...
...Confirmed the nominations of John Lord O'Brian as first assistant to the Attorney General and Joseph Potter Cotton as Undersecretary of State...
...very much surprised by the patronizing release made to The Boston American by Mr. Potter on the CRIMSON editorial concerning the Sargent murals. Everyone recognizes that as works of art they are disgraceful. Many critics feel that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but even his advocates admit that his last period was a long retrogression and that he reached the lowest depths in the Widener Library pictures. If Mr. Potter still has doubts on the subject, he might ask any member of the Fine Arts Department; even those who are most sympathetic toward Sargent...
...course, they should be taken down, if only to preserve a distinguished reputation, but things like that aren't done. However, as Sargent was unable to use a true fresco technique, regardless of what Mr. Potter may do, the pictures will soon decompose. Meanwhile they harmonize quite admirably with the vulgarity of the whole building. Perhaps this is what Mr. Potter meant when he said, "They have their place." John Walker...
...There has been no official action taken so far on the editorial," Potter said. "And there will be none in the future. We intend simply to ignore the article, which was just a piece of boyish writing, I feel...