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Anyone, says the catalogue, who ever held a pole in his hand, or drowsed for an hour or two on the bank of a stream will find plenty to interest him in the Fearing Collection, which reviews the history of the angling art from its earliest origins and one of the finest ever assembled on the subject...
With such material as her basis, Dormer Creston has constructed a biography of Maric Bashkirtseff which is a mingling of tears and laughter, joy and deep tragedy. Such was the life of this youthful and ambitious artist. From her earliest days, which Miss Creston describes in a light and whimsical yein, to her later life, Maric Bashkirtseff demanded of the world, and life itself, all that it had to offer...
...Democratic boss, Arthur Mullen. Slow-moving, stocky, a lawyer out of Harvard Law School, he first won national attention during the campaign of 1934. President Roosevelt at Green Bay quoted one of Burke's rare purple passages ("The New Deal is an old deal as old as the earliest aspirations of humanity for liberty and justice and the good life. . . . It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new and the Constitution of the U. S." etc. etc.). But Mr. Burke and the President have since differed. He began to talk of trimming New Deal expenditures. Last summer...
However, Mr. Quezon's case took a turn for the worse when the official announcement continued: "It was further agreed that preferential trade relations between the United States and the Philippines are to be terminated at the earliest practicable date consistent with affording the Philippines a reasonable opportunity to adjust their national economy. Thereafter it is contemplated that trade relations between the two countries will be regulated in accordance with a reciprocal trade agreement on a non-preferential basis." As soon as this news hit the Philippines, shares of local companies on the Manila Stock Exchange dropped an average...
...copy of the earliest known daguerreotype, a still life of a corner of Louis Daguerre's studio showing plaster Cupids heads, a bas relief and a large straw covered wine bottle, taken...