Word: stark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers by the aristocrats of haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready...
When their new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark promised them a "businesslike administration" last November, Missourians felt that a good place to begin businesslike reforms was in the marketing of State bonds. In 1934 Missouri voters authorized a $10,000,000 issue of building bonds for the rehabilitation of prisons and charitable institutions. Few months later the first $2,000,000 worth were sold to the highest bidder among six syndicates, including most of the top-flight bond houses in the U. S. The next $2,000,000 lot, however, was not opened to public bidding but sold privately in March...
...Whether this made John L. Lewis smile, no one has said. But that the "LEWIS-ROOSEVELT BREAK IS HINTED'' headlined in Tuesday's New York Times made Lewis frown, no one needed to say. For the warning appeared over the signature of the Times' Louis Stark, dean of U. S. Labor reporters and a man not given to crying wolf...
...lists of Labor reporters begin with Louis Stark of the New York Times, and, until this year, most lists could easily end with him. He made Labor news his career when most papers buried such stories back among the want ads and comic strips, when his current crop of colleagues were school boys or cub reporters. Yet he is not old (49). He began work in New York with the City News Association in 1912, went to the Times in 1917. Since then he has made himself so well informed on Labor that both William Green and John Lewis have...
...Portland, Ore.) smart young President Dexter Keezer announced that he would break a 22-year Reed rule against kudos in favor of five men and women who had never received an honorary degree. Among President Keezer's discoveries were the New York Times's Labor Reporter Louis Stark (see p. 41), LL.D., Rudolph Forster, senior member of the White House secretariat, LL.D., and Willard W. Beatty, Director of Education of the Office of Indian Affairs, Ed.D...