Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works...
...Guild talent in Hollywood backed up Miss Bankhead's effort with two big all-star broadcasts over the weekend...
...childhood Branwell Brontë showed as precocious a talent for writing as his sisters did, and added to it an ability to paint. His father idolized him, earmarked him for fame, then spoiled him and his chances. The darling of the family, Branwell enjoyed his tantrums unchecked; he grew to be an irresolute exhibitionist. When he began to realize that he was only a frustrated artist, he took the byroad to ruin via liquor and laudanum, while his helpless family stood by and watched...
...rabies," hustled him, "shrieking with indignation," into quarantine. Next day Actress Campbell snatched Moonbeam from the official clutch, sailed back to the U. S., eventually settled in Paris. Last week, still miffed, still dandling Moonbeam, she soliloquized: "It was easier for me to sacrifice the happiness of giving my talent to my English audience . . . than to break my little dog's heart...
Mother's Boy. A stoutish, purse-mouthed man who looks out of shining spectacles with an amiably deliberate expression, Glenn Martin is exhibit A1 of what a human being can do by channeling all his time and talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time...