Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not the slightest reason to agree with the oft-heard wail that all Europe will ultimately become an American colony. Nothing lies farther from the wish of the American people than to take from the European his responsibility for the conduct of his own industry. The American wishes in his international dealings and business acts to deal with independent persons and peoples who are conscious of their own responsibility. He does not wish to deal with slaves...
Eloquent Signor Grazzi presented the claim to Surrogate James A. Foley in Manhattan. Other European diplomats watched the test case closely. If it were fixed by precedent that foreign countries could lay hands on the unclaimed estates of their citizens domiciled in the U. S., they might expect a neat annual revenue from this source. Italy might get as much as $100,000 yearly in New York State alone, where at least $5,000,000 in claims by other nations were ready for presentation...
Nicholas Roerich, demigod to many an esthete in the U. S., South America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark...
They sent loan exhibitions through the U. S. to museums, public schools, libraries, prisons and to major South American cities. They established a Roerich Museum in Manhattan to hold as many of his paintings as they could get. The museum now has 750 Roerichs; European galleries and individuals own some 2,500. They sent him to Central Asia. While he was away they financed and recently started for him a 24-story Master Building in Manhattan, looking across the Hudson River at the factories of New Jersey. That dank, uncompleted Master Building was where the Roerich acolytes received...
Motorcycle figures showed that the European, outclassed in four-wheel locomotion, is potent in two-wheel travel. Of a world figure of 2,262,932 motorcycles, only 121,656 roar and bounce through U. S. territory...