Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal as none too openhanded, no persistent pump-primer.* Secretary Henry Wallace, on the contrary, and John Carmody have ably learned the art of putting out Federal money, and the major portion of this new money would be theirs to put out. Mr. Carmody, large and brisk, has been the genius of REA, carrying light to farmers by Federal subsidy. He is just about as far Left-wing as Jesse Jones is Right...
...years ago-a towering, turreted, 100-room French chateau surrounded with gardens, stables, farm buildings, 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, landing field and woodlands on 441 rolling acres. It was conservatively assessed at $1,100,000 and in it Otto Kahn, international banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), art and opera patron, lived and entertained lavishly...
...rich sponsors and the taste of the man who assembled it, the Detroit Museum's grey, spare, spry Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Twice as big as the Old Masters exhibition at the San Francisco Exposition (TIME, March 6), it covered every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections, these could not have been seen otherwise by nine-tenths of the visitors...
...inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems less a miniature than a heroic picture seen through a small window...
With all his genius for selling literary junk, Max Salop has an almost wistful ambition to become a "legitimate" publisher. In 1933 he bought the highbrow Dial Press from Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh and took a beating for art's sake. He lost money-probably the only time in his career. But he hung on proudly till...