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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yalemen | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Harvard university gives its students a period of freedom before each siege of examinations. There collegians have a few weeks to interpret factual knowledge, catch up on recommended reading, tack unrelated courses together. A pre-examination study period allows time for study when a student is mentally set for learning. Minnesota Daily, Friday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

Deflated, Lawyer Johnston tried a new tack, began telling the Court how the late Federal District Judge William I. Grubb had upheld his side of the case on its first hearing. This time Mr. Justice McReynolds broke in: "It would help if you would tell who brought the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Lawyer's Lesson | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Upset, Solicitor Reed pulled himself together and tried a new tack: The Court ought not to decide on the Bankhead Act because the record of the case did not cover all the points which should be considered for such an important decision. Again questions, right & left, from the Bench. Suddenly Solicitor Reed went ashen in the face, stammered, "I ask the Court's indulgence. I ... I ... am too ill to proceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Marble v. Velvet (Cont'd) | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...another tack? Forget Roosevelt, Maltbie,* Lehman, Mack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Power Laureate | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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