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Especially fascinating to Cleveland visitors were the works of two famed European experimentalists, Spaniard Pablo Gargallo and Rumanian Constantin Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
...Streetsville, Ont., the body of Hayden Pope, 2O-year-old son of the local blacksmith, was dug from its grave the night after burial. In the empty coffin was left a note demanding $100 ransom. Two days later, before horrified Father Pope had a chance to pay, a group of children found Hayden Pope's corpse in a ditch by the roadside...
...economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal church, and they soon affiliated it with the white, national church body. But Teamster Allen felt that Methodism was better for Negroes. He bought a blacksmith shop, began holding services, accumulated enough followers so that in 1799 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer U. S. Methodist. In 1816 the congregation of Negro Allen's Mother Bethel Church elected him the first U. S. Negro bishop...
...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
...Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...