Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stroke, was meanwhile doing a number of clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When the War was over, Colonel Edward Steichen burned all his paintings, spent one solid year photographing still life to learn just how much detail he could get under different lights...
...foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant-Skinned Lady 1914 SNUFFY SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS OF THE SULLIVAN HOUSEHOLD, and ATTENDANTS 3 LARGE SULLIVANS Parts taken by sundry members of the O'Hallahan family CHARLES FRANCIS APTED, of Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken all by himself TWO STUDENT ADVISORS . . . . . Parts taken by Sam Silversmith and George Goldsmith...
...Manhattan last year for smuggling alcohol, an Alcohol Tax Unit investigator introduced into the record excerpts from 72 tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them last week when Justice Roberts' majority decision held that "to recite the contents...
While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
...Laurence S. De Besa, who claims his father was physician to the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II. Mr. De Besa first drew attention in the newspaper business five years ago when he went to Cuba to sell dictatorial Gerardo Machado the idea of running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo...