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Under the patronage of the Dictator, co-operative bodies of Soviet citizens have obtained loans from the State aggregating 80% to 90% of the capital required for the many apartment houses they have built throughout Russia, most of, these loans being repayable over 60 years. In all, the State has loaned its cooperative citizens more than 1,500,000,000 rubles, or at the State's official figure...
Commissars and high party officials still need loans from the State for the private houses and estates they are building or have built in imitation of Stalin's (TIME. Oct. 4). The Kremlin's decree last week, while abolishing loans to cooperatives, carefully guards the housing rights of Communist bigwigs and anyone else who can get permission from a local Soviet to build himself a private house. Armed with such permission, on which the project must be certified as a "small house" (what constitutes "small" being undefined), the fortunate Communist can still apply for and get a five...
Most organ records are bad, and to purists Bach sounds too thick, too soft, when played on an organ built, as most modern organs are, on 19th Century lines. According to Musicraftsman Adler, the clean, transparent tone of the Trio Sonatas derives from the 17th Century-style engineering of the Westminster organ (built by Aeolian-Skinner and equaled in "baroque" tone only by the organs of Wellesley College and the Germanic Museum at Harvard...
...three-story, 25-room mansion in which the Bauhaus method was incongruously reborn this week was built 60 years ago by the first Marshall Field, given outright last year to the Chicago Association of Arts & Industries by Marshall Field III. The association, headed by grey-haired President Edward H. Powell of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and endowed a few years ago by midwest business bluebloods, gave its support to the School of Industrial Design at the Chicago Art Institute until last year it decided to use its $262,000 fund to establish a more ambitious school...
Lawyer Shutts as receiver in 1910. Forthwith he liquidated the paper, built upon its ruins the hardy Herald. Like Publisher Knight a successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...