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Stronger & More Specific. During the discussion of Schema 13, there were many demands that it be made stronger and more specific. Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger asked that it be stripped of all sterile condemnations; Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna complained that the present text was too narrowly Occidental and European in viewpoint. The schema was attacked as unacceptable by Sicily's implacably conservative Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini and by Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster. Heenan charged that it had been written by clerics with no knowledge of the world, delivered a savage attack on theological...
...drawing course a dreadful bore. So he and his wife Sara sailed to the expatriate paradise of Europe. There, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys became "masters in the art of living." Since the wine and the wit were always right, Stravinsky came to dinner, Léger showed them Paris night life, and Diaghilev invited them to his ballet...
...Airplane Linen. By then, Léger had pronounced Murphy the only American painter in Paris. Murphy'a 18-ft.-high Boatdeck, Cunarder, an immense evocation of exile in hard-edge boldness, caused a row at the 1924 Salon des Indépendants because it took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane...
Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal urged that a stronger declaration was "a necessary act of a renewed church...
...three sugar refineries. Sweden recently finished two dry docks and several meat packing houses, is now building a pulp-processing plant in eastern Siberia. The Netherlands has constructed three fer tilizer plants, and Japan fortnight ago approved a contract for one worth $10 million. Even industries in West Ger any, which has a strict ban on all but cash deals with Russia, have managed to get a few Russian contracts...