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...Smith's New Outlook. Various radical weeklies in the U. S. and in Great Britain pecked at the subject. Meanwhile the drawing room chatter kept up; Technocracy became a vogue; the slower-moving magazines rushed m. Harpers for January carries an article as will the March Cosmopolitan (with foreword by the now somewhat embarrassed President Nicholas Murray Butler). The Saturday Evening Post expects one by Banker Vanderlip when he has discovered and verified what facts the Technocrats possess. Even precious Vanity Fair (December) touched gingerly on Technocracy & Scott...
...announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo's "Landscape with Crucifix"; Biagio's "Landscape in Vence." His purchases were allowed to remain...
...which Tony was captured, tried, convicted, hung. When the changes had been made and the picture retitled The Shame of a Nation, the New York State censors still rejected it. Disgusted, Howard Hughes last week decided to release Scarface nationally in almost its original form, though with a sententious foreword denouncing gangsters. In New York and other States where censors rejected it, he planned to argue his rights in court...
...opening foreword declares, "This is the moment in which much space of the newspapers is devoted to affairs in the East and editorials are busy tackling the Manchurian problem. It is hoped that the turmoil will not last long and, in fact, it cannot last long. A little shift of political incidents is sure to undermine the whole struggle and therewith the space occupied by this unfortunate event will saved for the exploitation of other fattens. Thus Manchuria will be for gotten and the Oriental people once again relegated to a sort of Utopiation-existence...
...graduates as can be gathered from these blanks, including all those who entered with the Class in 1931. This record is usually placed at the back of the paper-bound volume, and this year's report is not expected to depart from the set form. A short introductory foreword by the secretary will be followed by the treasurer's report for the year ending May, 1931, to be submitted by Clarence Douglas Dillon...