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...John McCrady of New Orleans, his first one-man show in Manhattan. Born and bred in the South, John McCrady came north when he won one of the ten national scholarships to Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1933. The unusually cold winter depressed him. He quit going to classes, stayed in his room hugging the radiator and telling himself he was no good until one day he began to paint down home scenes out of his imagination. Since that year he has stayed in Mississippi and Louisiana and painted what he knows...
William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, the ponderous president of the Carpenters Union, biggest in A. F. of L. (300,000 members). Perennial campaign head of the Republican Party's labor committee, he quit the executive council in a huff last year when A. F. of L. plumped for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today Carpenter Hutcheson's power is on the wane, partly because his Republican affiliations are no longer of great value, partly because he lost face after John L. Lewis punched his jaw at the 1935 convention...
Keeping out of the streets was not enough for the harassed citizens of Nanking, 195 mi. up the Yangtze. Giving warning to all foreigners to quit the city at once, Japan prepared for a mass bombing raid aimed at the total destruction of Nanking with a dress rehearsal in which the city was bombed mercilessly for two hours, with little retaliation from either Chinese anti-aircraft batteries or planes...
Little El Salvador is admittedly hard up for money, so Benefactor Martínez is hailed by virtually all 1,600,000 Salvadorians for his tightfisted economies during his six-year regime. He led off with a martyrlike 50% slash in his salary, has closed some foreign consulates temporarily, quit, the League of Nations in the struggle to balance the budget (TIME, Aug. 23). With coffee about 80% of her exports, agricultural El Salvador depends for its revenues on a favorable foreign trade balance. Chief coffee customer is Germany. While crying for cash, El Salvador has instead been stuffed with...
...poor newspaper moujik in Chicago 15 years ago I quit one day and announced I was out to make a million. Now I've got 50 grand and I'm satisfied...