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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic survey report. William Randolph Hearst got him to look over his jumbled publishing empire (see p. 26). Not until this spring did Franklin Roosevelt persuade his rusty-haired friend again to give up his private affairs, say goodby to his wife and nine children in Bronxville, N. Y. and report for public service in Washington. When he gathered his commission,* the personnel of the old Shipping Board, and a few trusted aides who had been with him in SEC, and set to work, only 75 days remained before the deadline set by Congress for expiration of the old Shipping...
...because he had at last taken the advice of his business associates who urged him to drop or consolidate losing properties. He was sounder because he was putting his financial house in order all along the line and had just concluded a constructive deal in Rochester and Albany, N. Y...
...Rose Newell, a laundress who works for a girls' school in North Tarrytown, N. Y., was walking toward the school along a wooded stretch of road at nightfall one evening last week. Suddenly, from just over her head, she heard a weird, tremulous cry, half wail, half gibber. A hissing, feathered something struck her in the eye, raked her face with cruel talons. Frightened almost out of her wits, Mrs. Newell screamed and started to run. The screech owl followed her, clawed her again before flitting back to its tree. The laundress ran into the school, stammered...
...came from the donor's lawyers. Old Mr. Guggenheim was in Europe for consultations with Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, who helped him make his collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which the Baroness was named curator. To educate the U. S. public in the debatable serenities and excitements of painting which represents nothing...
...Custom again struck the unflinching, unbending Robert Gibsons a rude blow last week. They are a middle-aged couple who live at Tappan, N. Y., a New York village atop the Hudson River Palisades, just north of the New Jersey boundary...