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Approximately 350 voices will join in the Sunday concert, 200 being representatives of the Simmons Glee Club besides the 150 men from the Harvard group. The concert will be jointly directed by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Harvard Glee Club, and McCloskey, conductor of Simmons' Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND SIMMONS IN JOINT CONCERT TOMORROW | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

...mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound-escorted Diana and Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked and fascinated as before the portrait sculpture of Jo Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress of precious intellection and writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SCULPTURE GALORE | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Donors of the manuscript were Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wesleyan's Treasure | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief, Yet Again | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much of it. To Sir Henri, munching his pungent delicacy, might have come memories of the days in which he and John Davison Rockefeller would have constituted an extremely effective quorum on world oil-questions. What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when, after Stand ard had given away kerosene lamps throughout China, in order that the heathen might learn the advantages of kerosene lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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