Word: credite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Credit for new design goes to Eleanor Treacy, able onetime Art Editor of FORTUNE, now an independent consultant...
...will surely have many readers who will be disturbed by the way credit for the Four-Power meeting in Munich today is being laid at the door of Mr. Roosevelt, and who will share my concern lest Mr. Roosevelt or some of his less astute advisers begin to conceive Wilsonian ideas about the role of America's President in saving the rest of the world from its own folly...
...Berlin to Bagdad" and the "Drang nach Osten" or German "pressure toward the East." Anxious to preserve the new amenities between Germany and Britain established at Munich, yet anxious, too, to cash in on Germany's freshly won kudos, Dr. Funk opened as quietly as possible a Turkish credit with Germany of 150,000,000 marks ($60,000,000) for the purchase of "industrial and military equipment and materials for public works and other purposes...
...principle which far transcends the museum purchase. ... It is the principle of the right of a cultural institution ... to exist on behalf of the public without political interference or dictation." Meanwhile, political interference and dictation throve mightily over half the continent of Europe. Critics these days are inclined to credit Adolf Hitler with intense political intelligence, but to a big majority of the world's artists he remains a fool as well as a nuisance. Hitherto, Hitler has contented himself mainly with declaring what bad art is, has attacked all more or less experimental modern art as "Jewish...
...Exchange as "representatives of the public." Until 1934 the Stock Exchange was run as a club, generally excluded outside viewpoints from its deliberations. That year an "advisory group" of ten non-members headed by A. A. Berle Jr. was created, allowed to sit in. This body is given much credit for the growth of the reform spirit in the Exchange, but the Conway Committee decided: "We believe the public viewpoint may more effectively be expressed only when nonmember representatives are actually full members of the governing board. . . ." Last week SEC Chairman Douglas told the Exchange: "You are to be congratulated...