Word: cataloging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen-minute speeches were the rule, but tall, gaunt Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer droned on for 38 minutes, read what sounded like a catalog of every job which a world conference could possibly attempt. Speaking for France broad-shouldered, big-voiced Premier Edouard Daladier called sharply for dollar and pound stabilization beside the stable gold franc. Most polished, most eloquent and most fervent was U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's appeal for World co-operation and lower tariffs, but it did nothing to clear up the Conference fog as to what...
Hands. The Hahn picture is the same width as the Louvre painting, but 7½ inches shorter. In 1752, the first descriptive catalog of the royal picture gallery described a woman in red, by Leonardo, "holding a piece of lace in her hands." Measurements of this picture are the same as those of the present Louvre portrait which has no hands. The supposition is that when the Hahn portrait was transferred from wood to canvas in 1777,* the 7½ inches at the bottom containing the hands...
...State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust," he is President Roosevelt's closest, most intimate adviser. The President calls him "Ray." He calls the President "Governor." His job was not only to stoke the discussions with facts & figures but also to note and catalog each foreign viewpoint as it was expounded by one statesman after another from the black couch...
...Credit for this goes to Sewell Lee Avery, able head of U. S. Gypsum, who a year ago, nominated by J. P. Morgan & Co., was made president of Montgomery Ward. He promptly scrapped retail stores, deadwood personnel, obsolete merchandise, last summer put out a catalog divided into departments like a department store (with prices cut 18% to 25%) and displaying merchandise with style...
...mail-order houses are determined to undersell the Big Four. Mr. Firestone is equally determined that they shall do nothing of the kind. He insists that the vendors of cheap tires misrepresent the quality of their wares. Two months ago Mr. Firestone met their lower spring & summer catalog prices. They promptly undercut (TIME...