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...weeks ago, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of SEC. Last week end he cruised with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (seep. 67), "it would seem that apparently, some of them don't believe in this economic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wonderful Turnout | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

After its inspired showing in the last three games, Harvard's infield is doubtless one of the best in the Loop. With sparkling Fred Keyes back, its performance will be matchless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Batsmen Turn Back Penn In Third Victory | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Meraud, named doubtless by exotic derivation from émeraude (emerald), took after her mother in an eccentric love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Archaist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...these expressions doubtless echoed the sentiments of most of Mrs. Roosevelt's audience, which (judging by her mail) is 75% feminine. Her writings are important not so much for fortifying those sentiments, as inclining an already sympathetic democracy to side more strongly with its sisters. More important is the degree of action with which Mrs. Roosevelt would back up her sympathies, the amount of martial iron she instills into her women's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms with Raphael is the beginning, but surely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH TEACHER HITS ART INSTRUCTION | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

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