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...suggesting the long waving hair its closest parallel is found in the work of Jerome DuQuesnoy the younger, the most eminent among the many Flemish sculptors of that time. Very few examples of this school are to be seen in this country; perhaps no other so close to its ablest practitioner...
...Great War. As Victim No. 1 of the last War, small Belgium has a great stake in maintaining Peace. Last week Citizen Paul van Zeeland of Belgium made a report on the world economic situation that claimed the attention of the world's Presidents. Dictators, Premiers and their ablest political and economic experts...
...WARS AND MORE TO COME-Herbert L. Matthews - Carrick & Evans ($2.50). Direct, unphilosophical reporting by one of the ablest New York Times correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...
...actually drafts the Congress' masterpieces of unintelligible taxation is the legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great...
...sped via Hong Kong to Europe, arrived last week at The Hague. There Son Sun called an emergency council of China's chief diplomatic envoys in Europe, including famed Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Observers assumed that Sun was inquiring desperately of China's ablest envoys what assistance, if any, China may expect from the Great Powers. Next scheduled Sun stop: Moscow...