Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was ingratiating, but the Clemens pictures provided critics with a great chance for healthy severity. Good in Clemens' work is his drawing. He can draw like nobody's business. Good, but still self-conscious is his handling of paint. But his sense of placement on the canvas is rudimentary, his composition derivative, his imagination happiest in such lusty caricatures as Casey at the Bat. Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot...
...neuroses, become hesitant and suspicious, refuse to move about. They are usually "destroyed." Last week the Horse Show committee of Nebraska's famed Ak-Sar-Ben celebration brought to Omaha for a personal appearance a blind horse named Elmer Gantry, who was remarkable not simply because he was still alive but also because he had been taught to jump...
While Detroit hummed, the rest of the U. S. also contributed to the din of reviving times. Carloadings hit a 1938 high of 726,612-23,000 above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by the U. S. Employment Service reached a new peak in September, while applications fell for the first time in a year. Steel, power and cotton textile output were up. Two fat refunding issues went to a premium in Wall Street. Spurred by General Motors, stocks climbed to new 1938 levels...
Some of the basic reasons for these good tidings were visible in last week's figures on the flow of money. With gold still pouring in, U. S. stocks crossed $14,000,000,000 for the first time. With pump-priming going full blast, the 1938 Treasury deficit reached $979,000,000 against $449,000,000 for the same period last year...
...steel company would comment, but it was clear: 1) that the automobile companies had completed most of their fall buying; 2) that by finally acknowledging and meeting the surreptitious price cuts, Big Steel had convinced its angry competitors that, even if it is not a monopoly, it is still too big for them to trade punches with...