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...Whitney may well have been surprised, upon reaching Washington last week, to learn the origin of his hurry call. Senator Walcott of Connecticut had, it seemed, received a telegram from no less a personage than Publicist George Barr Baker, faithful friend and volunteer adviser of President Hoover, disclosing the imminence of a "billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz...
Nast's battle with Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never...
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in the preface, summarizes: "The distinguishing aesthetic principles of the International Style as laid down by the authors are three: emphasis upon volume--space enclosed by thin planes or surfaces as opposed to the suggestion of mass and solidity; regularity as opposed to symmetry or other kinds of obvious balance; and, lastly, dependence upon the intrinsic elegance of materials, technical perfection, and fine proportions, as opposed to applied ornament...
...educational feature of the exhibition will be a catalogue giving the first comprehensive survey of the works of modern architects together with historical and critical comment. Among the contributors are Professor Henry Russell Hitchcock of Wesleyan University; Mr. Johnson, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Lewis Mumford. Mr. Mumford is writing a survey of housing problems and their solution from an international standpoint...
...CLASS SECRETARY *John DcQuedville Briggs, Jr. 79 Eustis Dearborn 73 Alexander Cochrane Forbes 57 Augustin Hamilton Parker, Jr. 44 FOR PERMANENT CLASS COMMITTEE *Norwood Penrose Hallowell 213 *Charles Crchore Cunningham 185 *Oscar Sutermeister 171 *James Barr Ames 144 *William Peck Elwell 126 *Beekman Pool 112 Frederick Fessenden Wilder 109 Arthur Willing Patterson 95 George Keith Martin 94 Elting Elmore Morison 75 Josiah Macy Erickson 70 William Francis Brooks 67 Duaue Weills Rainbolt 61 FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. 196 *Robert Morrison Faxon 143 *Wilson Hill Crosby 137 *Thomas Eliss Armstrong 131 *Donald Murdoch Frame 115 *Otto Ernest...