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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annually on John Mitchell Day the miners of Pennsylvania do homage to his memory at his marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard...
When the New Deal took over Washington, the great limestone & marble building which now houses the Post Office Department was nearing completion. Its architects wanted its walls decorated with the usual classical allegory. A special adviser to the State and Treasury Departments named Edward Bruce objected. A capable Manhattan lawyer who retired in 1922 to become a capable artist, he stormed: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building...
Centre of attraction at the Corcoran show were 48 prizewinners of the latest SFA competition, picked from 1,470 color sketches submitted anonymously to a jury of artists. Each of these will be painted as a post-office mural in a different State. Outstanding are Paul Sample's angular New England landscape (Westerly, R. I.), Charles W. Thwaites' wheat harvesters (Chilton, Wis.), William Calfee's fishermen drawing up their nets at dawn (Phoebus, Va.). Common denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting...
...Portland, Ore., Howard Jones's unbeaten Southern California powerhouse, strongest he has turned out in years, rumbled over hitherto unbeaten Oregon State, 19-to-7. Thereby practically clinching the Pacific Coast Conference championship, Southern California began to ponder whom it would invite to the Rose Bowl...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...