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...THERE AN AMERICAN LEFT who can give work to a young, ambitious man who refuses to take WPA charity? Have had 2 yrs. M. I. T.; writing experience; military background; can farm; active outdoors; married; no children thru lack of funds. Will take any honest work anywhere...
Stead also got her detailed background material on the machinations of international speculators...
Most striking feature of Arthur Morgan's testimony was his willingness to weaken his case rather than tell half-truths. Witness Morgan first declared that TVA's General Manager John Blandford was "one of the little clique that run things," and lacked the background necessary for the job. Then Witness Morgan added that he himself hired Mr. Blandford away from a job as Cincinnati's public safety director, rued the choice later. In the same implacably veracious vein. Arthur Morgan pointed out that he: 1) signed board minutes which he now says were doctored by David Lilienthal...
...forthright, plainspoken, sharp-eyed teacher who preferred playing the cello to painting, warned his students that he could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would...
Tired of doing water colors of Dutch cows recumbent upon flat fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three...