Word: presentness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bulwarked by such patriots, Mr. Dies with perfect confidence last week asked the House to extend his inquiry for a year beyond next Jan. 3 (when his present authorization expires). Having spent most of the $125,000 so far appropriated to his committee, he announced he would ask for $100,000 at the next regular session of Congress. His awed fellows in the House had talked seriously of letting him have up to $500,000, seemed certain to vote one-fifth as much...
...bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
...pinko weekly New Republic gave itself a 25th birthday party. To its swank, Lescaze-designed Manhattan skyscraper office it invited representatives of that amorphous, shifting, elusive, body of opinion that is known as U. S. liberalism, displayed for them a 94-page supplement called The Promise of American Life. Present were amiable Robert Morss Lovett, Government-Secretary of the Virgin Islands, a New Republic editor for 18 years; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, the rival (74-year-old) liberal intellectual journal that looked exactly like the New Republic to outsiders, very different to liberal intellectuals. Present also were contributors...
Pictures for the present series were chosen to "exemplify the wide scope and uniqueness of art form that the film achieved" in the period from 1922 to 1928. Other films include two well-known early talking pictures and examples of the animated cartoon and the documentary film: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedies are on the first program, scheduled for November...
What he is trying to do basically is to imitate Duke Ellington. Several years ago, before Barnet bad formed his present band, I heard him play, and even then he was trying to imitate the Duke's ideas. He told me then that he felt that Ellington was the greatest of the living jazz leaders, and that his music was extraordinary by anybody's standards...