Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight's meetings, similarly informal, and limited in length to one hour will be at Adams House, where "American Democracy" is to be discussed, and at Kirkland; where the subject is "Social conditions in Elizabethan England...
...memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought the show to national importance. Overjoyed was she in 1937 when a similar exhibition of U. S. ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists who enter the show are commercial designers, that the interest the show has inspired has spurred better design in mass production. Her aim: to remove from mantelpiece...
Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
...place where money was going was into such ordinarily dead issues as coal stocks, which nothing short of a World War could volatilize. This World War, by pushing Germany and England out of the world coal market, was bringing U. S. coal companies some pretty fair export business. In addition, if anybody stood to profit momentarily from industrial forward buying, they did: they couldn't fill their orders. Pittsburgh Coal was traded at $8½ (up almost 300% from $2¼), Consolidation Coal at $6¾ (up over 500% from...
Here is a case of two warring powers, England and Germany, both painfully eager to end the fight after the first preliminary round. It would be the saddest event in all history if their peace hopes were frustrated merely because neither is in a position to make direct overtures. Obviously there must be a third power to bring them together, and just as obviously, the President of the United States is in the most logical position...