Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking Jerome Davis, Leftist professor of the Yale Divinity School, scooped the English language press with the first interview with J. Stalin since Lenin's death in 1924. He sold it to Hearst. Last week rangy, 46-year-old Dr. Davis, who was ousted from his Yale post seven months ago allegedly for his outspoken Leftism, now the C.I.O. standard-bearing president of the American Federation of Teachers, again broke into print with a report on another dictator, Getulio Vargas of Brazil...
...Painting. As aware of European styles as ever before, U. S. artists last year showed a maturing independence of them. Nineteen thirty-seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking...
...players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost so much money it was forced to quit at the end of the 1915 season. Connie Mack had come on evil days, too. For seven years (1915-21) his Athletics finished last in the American League, while he squinted shrewd eyes at 1,000 young men to find the right combination for another winning team...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...
John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and many another in the film colony who had deposits in Los Angeles' Guaranty Building and Loan Association in 1930, find it difficult to forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some...