Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard N. Elliott, times and conditions also changed when Congress stiffened its back over the Reorganization Bill. Before that he had confined his blue pencil to Government expenses for publicity, such frills as an expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last...
...massive, primitive and impassioned works of Sculptor Jacob Epstein have shocked London for 30 years. Last week Londoners were not so much shocked as surprised by Epstein's latest exhibition, which consisted not of sculpture but of 37 pencil drawings displayed at Tooth's New Bond Street Galleries. They were part of a set of 60 illustrating Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) by the 19th-Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire. "This Bible of the modern man has long called to me," explained Sculptor Epstein...
...trial in Moscow last week, accused in the Soviet Prosecutor's scathing phrase of "producing 2,000,000 imaginary pencils," were the Soviet executives of the famed Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil Factory...
...State bought the factory in 1930 from the famed Hammer family, U. S. small-businessmen who bought a pencil-manufacture monopoly in the Soviet Union from the State under the NEP or "New Economic Policy" of Nikolai Lenin. They cleaned up huge profits making pencils for Communists to plan with, and the Stalin State finally paid the Hammers $1,000,000 for their going concern, let them take out Romanov antiques which they now sell on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...post-Hammer Soviet management, finding its pencil-making falling each year a little further behind the Five-Year Plan, took to falsifying the Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil production figures, are now being tried for their group-crime...