Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over a coast-to-coast network James Roosevelt debated the Administration's Executive Reorganization Plan with Indiana's Congressman Samuel Pettengill, defending his father against charges of "dictatorship." Said Son James: "The history of dictatorships in the modern world shows that they have not crept up inside the governments of democracies through the gradual increase of the powers of the executive branch...
...Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Allston's friend and pupil, whose fame for inventing the telegraph has obscured his gifts as an artist. One of the finest landscapes on display was Morse's View From Apple Hill, Cooperstown, New York, a long, radiant vista of Lake Otsego...
...exhibition will be hung by Samuel Hershey and will include the work of Parker Perkins, Aldino T. Hibbert, Henrik and Clair Twanialk, and others...
Usonia is Frank Lloyd Wright's name for the U. S. A. He found it in Samuel Butler and, eclectic for once, appropriated it because he liked it. It is one of the tricks of speech and thought by which Wright links a curiously old-fashioned Americanism to an Americanism which is still ahead of his time. The Jacobs house he calls a Usonian house and it is his exhibit A in a demonstration of what Usonia might be. It "may help to indicate," he says, "how stifling the little colonial hot-boxes, whether hallowed by government...
...million or more U. S. sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open...