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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...
Yesterday Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School suggested in a radio address two methods of attacking the economic distress of the country. Unemployment the Dean would sweep away by dividing available work among all the men fit for positions. The basic cause of business depression, maladjustment, would be taken care of by a permanently established national planning board. These ideas are not new, but they have hitherto been considered radical, indeed socialistic, and it is a surprising indication of the progress of the times to hear them from the Dean of a Harvard graduate school...
...practical architect's school to educate architects in Frank Lloyd Wright's image. The school would be across the valley from "Taliesin," his studio-estate in the dairy country near Spring Green, Wis. He would be the chief faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would...
...scrap-gathering, Director Schwartz thinks, is the conservation of ore reserves. Not only is scrap steel's biggest raw material, but it takes twice as much ore as scrap to make a ton of steel. Every important country except Canada and the U. S. regard scrap as a basic resource, forbid its exportation. Under the Versailles Treaty Germany was required to supply Poland with 300,000 tons yearly. The U. S. sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising...
...redistributed according to the number of members of a family. Taxes are cut in half. A farmer with more than two sons must give one to the Communist Army. The son is equipped and fed, but his pay is sent to his father. Observers point this out as the basic difference between Russian and Chinese Communism. The former goes to great lengths to break down the Family, with easy divorce and state nurseries. The latter uses the Family, strongest force in Chinese life, as the base of its system. Communist spokesmen in China last week insisted that they have...