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...buildup, Baltimore's union men and their families found plenty to look at and plenty to like in the museum's galleries. Most of the 106 items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit...
...supplied. The Maritime Commission was thus able to presume that the ship might be turned to German naval purposes. It forbade the sale. For her part, Turkey suspected that the Germans wanted to play the part of the middleman in the deal, getting the middleman's rake-off in a resale to Turkey involving blocked marks held for Turkey in the German Reichsbank. Since the Turks explicitly said the ship would be used only as a floating palace for their beloved "Father," the sale to Turkey was sanctioned, was even approved by the U. S. State Department. The Nazis...
...last long. Second reaction was a frantic effort by Administration leaders to forestall a muckraking committee investigation. In the House, TVA appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...
...magazine for insiders, Publisher Smart had another idea of a magazine for the underdog, militantly antifascist. First editor hired was Jay Cooke Allen, whose scoops as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune qualified him to edit a magazine for insiders. Off to Europe he hustled last summer to rake up new background, returned and began to gather a staff of militant liberal writers...
...charmingly casual throughout his confessions and the gradual confirmation of them. His role is so exaggerated that it could be filled only by an actor of the right appearance as well as of the requisite skill, and fortunately Mr. Lynn has both. Cecilia Loftus is a splendid old rake of a mother-in-law, who surveys the career of her son-in-law with no illusions, and advises her daughter his wife to be faithful or the opposite with a realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory as the mild-mannered wife. Leona Powers...