Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to write a perfectly good check for less than $1, was the question submitted last week to U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi ("Rustic") Sargent...
Simon Ross, Assistant U, S. District Attorney in Cincinnati, did not wish to make a ruling on the subject and so referred it to Mr. Sargent, even though there is in Section 10,348 of the revised statutes of the U. S. the following law which makes it a crime to "make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a sum less than $1 intended to circulate as money or to be received in lieu of lawful money of the United States...
Last week a picture was exhibited in Boston-"St. Martin and the Beggar" by El Greco. Carlos Meinhard of the Howard Young Galleries brought the picture to Boston; it had come to him from the collection of John Singer Sargent who owned it for 30 years, allowing it to be shown in public only once-at the exhibition of Spanish art in London in 1895. There is talk now that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio...
...York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after that we find only such fashionable virtuosos as Zuloaga and Sargent. Scripture after Rodin is almost equally neglected...
...With a proud tan and a clear head, the President arose early on his first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio...