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...President's Detroit speech was his long and familiar recital of his battles with Depression. As at Des Moines and Cleveland, he made the Democratic House and its legislative record his principal target...
Walter Pach does not lack courage. The complacency of academic painters and museum directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly...
...transportation to Vandalia. At 50 and at 75, last week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more a matter of steady nerves than skillful marksmanship, which most Vandalia shooters take for granted. It gets harder with every target. Young Olds was relieved when he missed his 96th. Then he hit three more for 99 and the $1,000 first prize, with two marksmen tied for second...
...more injuries suffered by athletes waiting for the games to start at Los Angeles last week, most disastrous was the one which befell Col. Giuseppe Pirzio-Biroli, 52, captain of the Italian rifle team. He fell into a target pit while supervising practice, fractured a vertebra, had to be taken to the California hospital where physicians said he must remain, in a plaster cast, for three months...
...other officeholders" are two members of the de Valera Cabinet who made the Governor General their "target" by leaving a dance at the French Legation in Dublin directly he appeared. This insult, according to virtually the entire Press of Great Britain last week, was intolerable. The Governor General was lauded for disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur...