Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned into a few spasmodic "limited incursions." which deplete state budgets and estrange white suburbs. Money is running out. Last month the Governor slashed welfare rolls, cutting deeply into general relief funds and tightening eligibility requirements. Recipients could hold no more than $50 worth of personal property, according to Sargent, and they would now have to register with the state monthly. Since state welfare costs had risen more than 25 per cent for the third year in a row, the Governor was trying to protect the rest of his budget. Aid for Dependent Children alone rose 425 per cent...
OFTEN Mrs. Jack's propensities for certain art works were meshed with her proclivity for collecting artists as well as art. John Singer Sargent, James McNeil Whistler, and writers such as Henry James and F. Marion Crawford were only a few noteworthies of her creative entourage...
...Sargent painted a portrait of Belle Gardner that stirred up quite a few waves along the Charles River: Mrs. Jack was pictured with a black dress wrapped quite tightly for a Boston matron, a V-cut neckline with a single strand of pearls reiterating the circular lines of her tiny waist and a single red ruby dropping from the pearls; the portrait was not nearly as risque as others that Sargent was painting at the time, but when Jack Gardner heard the comments about the picture, he forbid its public exhibition. The gossip was that, "Sargent had painted Mrs. Gardner...
...endorsed by a number of liberal Congressmen, whose ranks swell daily. They include Bella Abzug, Michael Harrington, and Benjamin Rosenthal in the House, and George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Harold Hughes, Philip Hart, and Vance Hartke in the Senate. In addition, there are the old Moratorium standbys (John Lindsay, Francis Sargent, and retired Army General Hugh Hester) lending their endorsement, if not their presence...
...Senate approved a ratification resolution on a 38 to 0 roll call vote. The House concurred with a 213 to 8 vote less than an hour later. The resolution does not require the signature of Gov. Francis Sargent...