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...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
Congressman Gardner Robert Withrow of Wisconsin is a fourth cousin of Abraham Lincoln. Son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he was born in La Crosse, Wis., 45 years ago, went to work after high school as a fireman for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Nineteen years later he had risen to be a conductor, got into the Wisconsin Legislature with the support of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Next he acted as the Brotherhood's lobbyist in Madison, Wis. Then in 1930 he went to Congress as a Republican...
...reason is that a gifted painter's work is usually dispersed among many purchasers, costs a great deal of money, time and tact to reassemble. One of the most remarkable events of the London art season, therefore, was an exhibition which opened fortnight ago at the New Burlington Galleries-852 oil paintings, water colors and drawings, comprising the complete* life work of a young Englishman who died under a train at Salisbury in 1930 while his fame was spreading over Europe...
...apparent. President Roosevelt had no comment, but almost every railroad executive had plenty to say. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads was most temperate: "We're glad to have what they gave us, but we're disappointed." President Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: "This increase, in my opinion, is nowhere near adequate. . . ." Chief Executive Edward Miall Durham Jr. of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific: "Quite unsatisfactory...
Since January 3, 15,000 Londoners a week have filed reverently into Burlington House to see the annual winter show of the Royal Academy-this year a whopping display of 17th-Century European art to which the King lent four famed canvases by Rubens. Fortnight ago a smaller exhibition of larger import opened a few blocks away at the New Burlington Galleries and immediately began to draw comparable crowds. This was the first solo exhibition of England's five-year-old MARS (Modern Architectural Research) Group, which now numbers about 60 members in the United Kingdom and at least...