Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doumergue, who died last week (see p. 28), of asking for full powers ''as the opening wedge to Fascist Dictatorship!" Last week when Orator Blum asked exactly these powers for his Government he cried: "We are backed by the masses of this country. . . . Too often have we seen the policies demanded by the people overthrown by shady maneuvers! . . . My Government not only has the support of the people but the enthusiasm of the people...
...West 54th Street town house of the late John D. Rockefeller is one of the few remaining private residences in mid-Manhattan with a scrap of lawn. Mr. Rockefeller had not seen it for years, however, and last week came news that it and his son's place next door would soon be torn down. The sites had been given to the Museum of Modern Art for a fine new building to be completed...
...seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board of trustees, which includes Mrs. Rockefeller, Lord Duveen, Edsel Ford, John Hay Whitney and Marshall Field, will meet in the most public board room any of them has ever seen: a penthouse of clear plate glass. To pay for the building, trustees and other friends of the museum contributed some...
...weeks rehearsing, only Composer Blitzstein and his piano. People who preferred to get their money back might do so. Only one man applied. Under similarly shabby circumstances Clifford Odets' Waiting For Lefty was first shown. Not since then, in the opinion of most of the audience, had Manhattan seen a show so exciting...
...Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...