Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee is composed of Leo Marx, Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Logan Bullitt, Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., Arthur C. Jaros, Jr. John W. Darr, Jr., Quentin Roosevelt, William H. Heinton, Eugene H. Nickerson, James J. Pattee Jr., and Spencer Klaw. Also present at the meeting were William E. Clark '08 Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, and Richard B. Finn '39, Chairman of the B. S. U. committee on the House problem
United Automobile Workers' Homer Martin and C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis, who disagree about many matters, long have understood that factionalism rampant in the U. A. W. A. was harming the whole industrial union movement. Outlaw sit-downs, repudiations of his authority, and kindred manifestations of factional trouble were blamed by Mr. Martin upon Communist careerists and others in his union who, according to him, raised hell for the hell of it. In large part, Mr. Lewis blamed Mr. Martin, who according to the C. I. O. chairman should have displayed more administrative fortitude, a quality...
...friend, the late Lillie P. Bliss. Her greatest interest is in U. S. art, traditional and contemporary, and in this A. Conger Goodyear is a fellow soul. Ever since he first broached the idea to the Louvre authorities in 1932, dynamic President Goodyear, a lover of Winslow Homer and Charles Burchfield, has yearned to show France the artistic goods...
Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee...
...singles victors were Homer Peabody, Barney Straus, Jasper Dick, Hubert Earle, and Don Marvin...