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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Administrator Hopkins' staff was busy checking over new projects submitted by local administrators for addition to their "back-logs"-work to be done when current projects are finished-plans to occupy 1,000 men for six months building a sewer and tunnel at Michigan Avenue and St. Clair Street, Chicago; 21,200 man-hours working the roads of Greene County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Artists had been speaking to the board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Stokes and the WPA | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Safest, nearest spot for convicts to head for is British-owned Trinidad, 600 miles from St. Laurent, where escaped convicts are now fed, hospitalized, sent on their way, treated like shipwrecked mariners. Althougn Britain and France have signed an extradition treaty, Trinidad Judge Charles Greenidge virtually nullified the treaty for Devil's Island criminals by freeing 13 escaped convicts on the almost impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slow Death | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Bill Martin, whose father is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, joined the liberal group of Paul V. Shields. Edward Allen Pierce and John W. Hanes soon after he bought an Exchange seat in 1931, has since lived quietly at Manhattan's Yale Club, studied steadily at the New School for Social Research. When the reform group gained control of the reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $48,000 Symbol | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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