Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee, after a month of intensive investigation of its subject, handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...properties instead of ruining them, replied that he would be "delighted" to negotiate for his companies if they would be bought as "going concerns" and not piecemeal or at distress rates. But the terms, suggested equally shrewd Mr. Willkie, should be set by an independent committee, in view "of the recent newspaper reports of a diversity of opinion as to policy within the TVA." Mr. Willkie's suggestions for committeemen: President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin, President Karl Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter...
When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...
Revolutionary Crisis: Since last November, in view of the great quantities of arms, ammunition and bombs seized by the French Secret Service, it has been certain that there are in France sizable groups determined to overthrow the Republic by force. Proletarian leaders have not hesitated to accuse Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen...
...adult who judges art by its intellect, the art of children is necessarily primitive, sometimes amusing. To an adult who looks on art as a floodgate for the imagination, child art has lately become a fascinating affair. Muddlers who hold either view as occasion in Manhattan demands found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors...