Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...
...Darling Daughter (Warner Bros.) is an adaptation of Mark Reed's mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing play about a humorless young couple who enjoy an earnest week-end together before getting married. Three weeks ago the New York State Board of Censors banned the movie. Last week, the Board of Regents rescinded the ban and Warner Bros., eager to capitalize on the publicity, hurried it simultaneously into Manhattan's Strand and Globe Theatres. Critics and audiences found it mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
...Harvard, where his family name is so illustrious as to be a liability, Robert Hallowell was Lampoon president (1909-10), a member of Hasty Pudding, Signet, Stylus, DKE, and a great friend of rollicking John Reed. When a group including Classmate Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly founded the liberal New Republic in 1914, Radical John Reed encouraged Hallowell of the banking Hallowells to take the post of treasurer. Ten years later he suddenly quit, went to Paris, arranged a divorce, became an artist. At 52, Robert Hallowell died...
Robert Hallowell was not a great artist, but he was a natural one. He did vivid, honest water colors and first-rate portraits, including one of Revolutionist John Reed, which now hangs in Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty...