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Lutheran System. President-elect Fuerbringer attended Concordia himself (his red hair, now vestigial, won him the nickname "Kelly"). After graduate studies in the late '20s, he went into pastoral work. In 1941 came his first summons to a Lutheran education post: the presidency of Concordia Teachers College in Seward...
Dada was not all meaningless. It developed bold new techniques of poster art, laid some obvious groundwork for surrealism. But inevitably the movement was a victim of its own excesses. During the middle '20s, Dada suddenly died out and surrealism took its place...
...These days, so many Americans are sitting down at their pianos that friends are no longer surprised; it is the piano makers who are amazed. They are enjoying their biggest boom in 25 years. Sales last year of 154,000 instruments were still below the booming '20s, when the player-piano craze pushed sales to 300,000. But the figure still represents a lively rise from the low note struck by the industry during the Depression...
Working with a Republican executive is an unusual experience for Taft. Said he: "I spent eight years in the legislature of Ohio and this is my 15th year in Congress. Except for two years back in the '20s in Ohio, this is the first time that I have served under a Republican executive. I find it a novel experience...
...important, though unpublicized, position in the Administration. He knows the President's mind more intimately than any other adviser. Youngest of the five Eisenhower brothers, he is the closest to Ike. Their close association dates from the years they served together in Washington in the '20s and '30s, Ike as a staff major and Milton as the Agriculture Department's information chief...