Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaperman to report a big Labor trial, became a Roman Catholic soon afterward. Seldom does he figure in the news, but midwestern Labor and employers account him their best and most active mediator. He helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face, a kindly smile, a soothing voice. "If all priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late...
...Chicago corporation lawyer, Fearing got his literary start as winner of a $50 poetry prize at the University of Wisconsin, where he once went into bankruptcy and appointed a classmate as receiver. His early career in Manhattan consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim...
...Wisconsin: Robert S. Schwantes, 16, Lancaster; Lancaster Public School
...studio on the quiet campus of the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture last week Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry put the last dab of paint on a 20-foot sweep of canvas, laid down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry, in the ten years since he first hit his stride with a picture of violence called The Tornado, has become the most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls...
Like the great artists of renaissance Italy, John Steuart Curry lives on the patronage of States and institutions, paints in peace. His five-year contract with the University of Wisconsin pays him $4,000 a year, carries with it the title "Professor" and the burden of giving an occasional lecture. Still at work in Madison last week on twelve panels for the State Capitol of Kansas Curry called his Oklahoma Land Rush a picture of the same migration Novelist John Steinbeck describes in Grapes of Wrath. Said he: "Civilization went into the Territory 50 years ago on wheels...