Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian political, financial and social life. They denied, however, any connection with the Rome-Berlin Axis. At 10:30 the proclamation was released. The public was more apathetic than surprised...
...Best-paid careers for men ($2,500 or more after eight years) were dentistry, medicine, law, public office, architecture, insurance, research, forestry, business, :elephone work. Poorest-paid (averaging under $2,000): journalism, the ministry, clerical work. Biggest single group (17%) went into teaching, averaged about $2,000 eight years after graduation. Best-paid occupations for women were nursing and teaching. Big-college graduates were better paid than alumni of small colleges...
...been abated and nullified in large measure among our own non-Jewish stocks, which have been sheltered, pampered and fostered. . . . We go on merrily and righteously nurturing our 'Aryan' imbeciles, morons and criminals, encouraging them to breed more of their kind, and supporting them at public expense. On the other hand, we persecute the Jews and try to destroy them, and actually succeed in preventing the survival of those who are not superior in wits and in constitution. Thus we make them better and better, while we get worse and worse...
Manhattan's grand, grey Metropolitan Museum used to amuse expatriate Henry James as the "so aspiring" museum of his native city. Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century. Lately the Metropolitan has turned to art at home, and since 1934 has actually bought 73 contemporary U. S. paintings. Last week, with positive enthusiasm, it performed another service...
Hung in nine lofty galleries were 290 paintings, beginning with a portrait of Pocahontas and ending with a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, comprising the biggest show the Metropolitan has ever had and a unique collection of pictures. The museum had combed 145 public and private sources, from Boston's (public) Latin School to Missouri's State Historical Society, for paintings illustrative of "Life in America" to 1914. The result was a visual chronicle, period by period, frontier to frontier and back again, of human beings engaged in the conquest of a continent...