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Though the show made no attempt to rival the historic Persian exhibitions in London's Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12, 1930), it did offer a comprehensive outline of Persian illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold...
Currently serving on an independent protective committee in connection with bankrupt Missouri Pacific (mileage: 12.183), Mr. Beard blames the bankers as the carriers' real managers. But bankers or no, financial ineptness is almost a railroad tradition. With a few notable exceptions like Burlington, Union Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, U. S. railroads have habitually increased their fixed charges when they should have reduced them; they have sold bonds when more prudent corporations were selling stock; they have paid dividends when they should have been paying off debts; they have sunk millions in improvements that...
...Chicago Great Western is a 1,518-mi. "Granger" road sprawling over the rich farm territory directly west of Chicago. Small in comparison with Grangers like Burlington or North Western, it is strategically important as a connection between the Transcontinentals and Chicago. Its president is Patrick H. ("Pat") Joyce, who declared on taking office in 1930 that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than...
...this book, which consists of lectures delivered in connection with the Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House in January 1934, Fry was faced with the acid test of his career. The British Isles have never fostered or produced the kind of distinction in the graphic and plastic arts which one would ordinarily expect, in view of the success of English poetry...