Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When radio tried to crash the sacrosanct U. S. press galleries eight years ago it was coldly informed that the galleries were open only to representatives of "daily newspapers or newspaper associations requiring telegraphic service." Last week, thanks to a tireless one-man campaign by MBS's 36-year-old Washington Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., the gallery bars were let down for radio...
...many biographies of reformers have recently appeared that it may become an open question whether their work was ever as important as their books about it. But for Oswald Garrison Villard, owner for 15 years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible. Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of fights, and refusal to admit defeat...
Like his friend, Louis Adamic, "Maxo" Vanka has a love of poor people and a tireless zeal in studying them. Among his sepia drawings were two that made many a visitor gulp with humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom...
Enthroned above all were the heads of the two Houses, President John Nance Garner of the Senate (looking more than usually owlish) and Speaker William Bankhead. Below them were ranged President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, House Majority Leader Rayburn, and a tireless Representative from Manhattan for whom the sesquicentennial of the U. S. has been a three-year field day, Director Sol Bloom of the Joint Committee on Arrangements...
Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse...