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...Fogg Museum there is a unique exhibition of paintings done by the modern American Indian and lent by Miss M. C. Wheelwright, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss A. E. White. Most of the pictures come from the region around Santa Fe. There has been an attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close...
Today at 8.30 o'clock. H. W. Poor will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Scenic America". His talk will deal primarily with the National Parks, Grand Canyon, and the Indian Detour. The lecture is made possible through the courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway System...
...call your attention to item in TIME of Nov. 28 issue, p. 31, top, which refers to women's lounge and smoking room on trains operated by the Pennsylvania R. R., Lehigh Valley and also mentions name of the Santa Fe's crack train The Chief...
Gradually, Myron Taylor cut down his textile holdings and became essentially a banker. He was elected to the directorate of two railroads- the New York Central and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; he was made a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. It was rumored that Banker Baker persuaded Myron Taylor to become one of the directors of U. S. Steel; surely, it was his support coupled with the approval of John P. Morgan that gave Myron Taylor one of the three executive offices in this gargantuan corporation...
...sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered...