Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom some will remember as the Republican candidate for President in 1936, made a speech last Tuesday night. Like most political addresses, it contained statements better left unsaid, and omitted things which should have been included. But from it may be drawn two major conclusions regarding the American political scene in the recent past and near future...
...treasury in New York. In return for this consideration the national union supplies the Harvard group with news of its operations, the privilege of having union cards in a nation-wide society, and the responsibility of participating in its wild-eyed schemes, all of which originate far from the scene of action in Cambridge. Last year, for instance, the National Union almost succeeded in allying itself with the politically bankrupt farmer-labor party in the Middle West, and this shot-gun wedding which the national leaders tried to put over on the rest of the member organizations was only averted...
...design is by Elbert McGran Jackson and was sent up from Philadelphia last week at the request of Edward Coxe, local circulation manager, who was bewailing the fact last week that the color was just a couple of shades off to fit into the Harvard Square scene with complete harmony...
Twelve. At the Downtown Gallery, twelve ambitious young U. S. painters were represented by their best work of the year. From Boston, where he was born in 1915, Jack Levine sent the most powerful canvas in the show, a Street Scene with three dreamlike, prodigious figures. As elegant as this was rough, The Various Spring by O. Louis Guglielmi, 31-year-old New Yorker, showed three identical blue-shirted workmen climbing maypoles to reach gift platters in each of which reposed a little dead Madrileno...
...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time...