Word: romanizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Croat's America. Once known as Yugoslavia's finest portrait painter, Croatian Maximilian Vanka was not months in the U. S. two years ago when he painted, for a little Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., a stunning set of murals to which art lovers have been making pilgrimage ever since (TIME, July 19, 1937). Last week slight, courtly, volatile Artist Vanka nearly popped with affability and shyness as Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of his work...
...should be? Jim Farley, who controls most of the national Democratic machinery, can be seen playing along with old Mr. Garner (or old Mr. Hull) because he believes in their sanity and because as No. 2 man on the ticket with either of them he might become the first Roman Catholic President...
...unofficial National Gallery by virtue of location, Washington's sedate Corcoran swam into the news last week. Rejected by Corcoran's jury for its sixteenth biennial show of U. S. oil paintings was The Eternal City, famed satire on Roman Fascism by conscientious Artist Peter Blume (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938). When supporters of Artist Blume snorted "politics!", supporters of the Corcoran sniffed "publicity...
...more than 125 Roman Catholic churches in 90 U. S. cities, kneeling throngs heard the Pope's blessing, at the climax of a broadcast which went out on the combined networks in the early hours of Sunday morning...
...Moravia and Bohemia are swinging back into the German orbit, probably for a long period of time," commented John M. Potter '26, assistant professor of History and Literature on Hitler's latest move. "In one brief year the bases of the Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Austria, and Bohemia have swung back under German sway, but what the eventual outcome will be it is now impossible accurately...