Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor at $2.50 a week. In return for relieving slum conditions, the State makes F. W. H. A. land and buildings taxfree. WPA labor will put the houses together, clear the land of present slum buildings, if any. When any owner buys his land back, WPAsters will pull down the collapsible houses and put them up on another $1 plot, a job that can be completed in 24 hours. The up-&-down houses will be small (32 ft. by 20 ft.), have modern kitchens and bathrooms, but no gadgets. Declared enthusiastic Promoter Hall: "Our project is the only...
...Southern newspaper reactions to Franklin Roosevelt's "Purge" act against Senator Walter George last week at Barnesville, Ga. were chiefly adverse. The Atlanta Constitution snorted: "He would turn the United States Senate into a gathering of 96 Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms." Atlanta Journal: "Great is the President's prestige, and great the admiration in which Georgians hold him. But assuredly he cannot do their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins...
...Four's A Crowd, by presenting its people as fundamentally irresponsible, robs their irresponsibility of comic impact and turns what might have been high-tension comedy into mildly funny farce. Best shot: Errol Flynn, having hurriedly put an iron gate between himself and the great Danes, pausing to pull one of their tails between the bars, give it an emphatic bite...
...objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves Sheeler an exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly but through an instrument. . . . This happens to sum up the relationship of the classic artist to his subject...
...Court. Here, Bill Douglas was smart - he picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...