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Pinkerton detectives guarding Manhattan's practically completed Riverside Church last week straightened to attention, craftsmen made a show of their slow assiduity, as a small, stocky, energetic, bushy-haired, suntanned man-Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-walked with authoritative curiosity through the church nave and accessory rooms. A small group attended him on this his first inspection of the church since his regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church...
...profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper (his father's office is on the 72nd floor), it will issue a newly splendrous classic, later perhaps a few unquestionable contemporaries. Its organization consists of best obtainable craftsmen, a managerial staff of five, a board of directors of whom one will be Father Chrysler. Said President Chrysler, Jr.: "Dad's an expert on rugs and tapestries . . . knows books . . . been a collector for years. ... I am hoping, believing, that the existence of such a press as ours will...
...cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
Small storekeepers, craftsmen and farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...fortnightly (September to May) Scholastic, modern, not to be accused of fogyism, carries work by such erudite craftsmen as Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Mansfield, Hervey Allen, reports for the young, affairs political, scientific, artistic. Founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...