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Last week the eyes of the world's money changers were fixed upon the baroque façade of a four-story building in the Rue de la Vrillière in Paris. There behind the portals of the Bank of France was the solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring...
...that was about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox finance, soon took Governor Tannery into camp, assisted in maneuvering M. Flandin out of the Premiership, and substituted for credit-loosening and pump-priming during the eight month Premiership of Pierre Laval a comforting façade of French Treasury orthodoxy behind which burgeoned the deficits from which France has been unable to escape since...
...first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many...
Great spotlights tickled the sky over Hollywood one night last week. Raspberry floodlights bathed the south side, chartreuse beams the façade, of a building near Hollywood Boulevard whose fluted white front bore the architectural devices of Greece, the French Empire, the U. S. Cinema. Under a marquee passed film folk and thousands of others who had been summoned with great powder-blue and orange cellophane invitations to attend the opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since...
...this, as in most crises, Engels saved them. Determining to make money, Engels became a manufacturer in Manchester, a member of the Stock Exchange, on the surface lived the typical life of a well-to-do Englishman, which included frequent fox-hunts with conservative companions. Behind this façade, Engels supported Marx financially, arranged for the publication of his work, kept an Irish mistress, studied military strategy in preparation for the World Revolution. Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight...