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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes and President Roosevelt. The city's newspapers made out an airtight case of political spitework by the New Deal against last year's Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Moses refused to resign either of his jobs. Instead he revealed that as early as last February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order I don't look to see whom it may affect." He explained...
Frans Hals, born in Antwerp about 1584, was 20 years older than the great Rembrandt van Rijn whom he scarcely knew. He married twice, produced 14 children and a mass of canvases, but had on the whole, almost as dull an existence as the stolid, rich little city of Haarlem in which he spent most of his life. His talent was early recognized. He worked very hard, made a great deal of money, kept little of it. Because of his fondness for painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans...
...Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic novel of the future...
...Twice in a decade First Church burned down. Indicted for arson the first time, Fundamentalist Norris blamed the "liquor crowd," was acquitted. After the second fire, in 1929, he raised money for a big new church in downtown Fort Worth. First Baptist Church now claims 10,000 members or enough to make it the nation's biggest white congregation...
Married-Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 36, journalist and onetime publisher; and Mrs. Helen Varner Anderson 26, of Clarksburg, W. Va.; in Albuquerque N. Mex. where they met three years ago and whither they returned "because it seemed more romantic." Twice before has Journalist Vanderbilt been married: to Rachel Littleton of Chattanooga, Tenn. (divorced in 1927) and to Mrs. Mary Weir Logan of Chicago (divorced...