Word: snowden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elected to Associate Membership last week were 19 painters, sculptors and architects, among them: John Steuart Curry, Guy Pene du Bois, Reginald Marsh, Frank Mechau Jr., Mario Korbel, Joseph Renier, George Snowden, John Holabird, Dean Everett Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Many of the painters like Curry and Marsh were considered violent radi cals by Academicians eight or ten years ago, but kindly President Jonas Lie has in the three years of his incumbency been striving manfully to have the Academy follow, though belatedly, the times. Last week he explained that these elections were all provisional, would...
...Memphis some 200 trucks were pulled up at the Arkansas end of the Harahan Bridge every morning while their drivers vainly sought pickers in the city. "Farmers are begging for pickers and they are offering them from $1 to $1.25 per 100 pounds picked," exclaimed Agricultural Committee Chairman Robert Snowden of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce appealing to the WPA to send men on relief to the fields...
...claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have...
...chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...yard free style relay--won by Harvard: John V. Quinlan, Walter S. Poor, John C. Wahike, James Snowden...