Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During last week's busy days-while he was preparing for the opening of the first Congress in which his supporters may not have clear sailing-Franklin Delano Roosevelt paused to attend to a seemingly small matter. He picked George MacDonald, rich public utilitarian of Manhattan, to head a committee to distribute 3,000,000 bus. of surplus U. S. wheat to non-combatants in Spain. Giving wheat to Spaniards of both sides impartially amounts to friendly aid to Spanish Loyalists, who need bread far worse than Generalissimo Franco's side. As such it is another gesture...
...American States was torpedoed by one of the smaller men in one of the smaller major American States. Hardly was the ink dry on the Pan-American Conference's unanimous resolution to eschew barter-trade deals with the European dictator nations, when small but rich Uruguay O. K.d a deal with Italy which, swapping wool for armaments, is expected to treble trade between the countries...
...works of Antoine Watteau. Few others can afford them. Of about 200 Watteau paintings in the world, three U. S. museums have been able to acquire one apiece.* Last week the fourth and one of the finest was a Christmas present to the Cleveland Museum of Art from rich Commodore Louis D. Beaumont, vice president of the May Department Stores...
...litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year, outstanding in comprehensive science, were three medical researchers who discovered that nicotinic acid was a cure for human pellagra: Drs. Tom Douglas Spies of Cincinnati General Hospital, Marion Arthur...
...during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been fairly successful, especially those, like the Russians, who have had a rich store of national folk music to draw upon...