Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cash last year, he went to Mrs. Frank Granger Logan, who also loves art (she authored the 1936 Sanity in Art brouhaha), and asked her to buy his curio-crammed museum-mansion until he could raise the money to buy it back. Mrs. Logan found $17,500 and Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke in at dawn. Drawing on cellar stocks with which to withstand the longest siege...
Much water has flowed since 1894 between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...
...Lewis of Everett, Wash., Mrs. Wyman of Tacoma, and Mrs. Grimson of Seattle are all engaged hereabouts as masters of inland vessels. Mrs. Grimson is particularly noteworthy for her managership of freighting sternwheel steamers-the last of the once great Puget Sound fleet-after many years as skipper of same...
...Tacoma, Wash...