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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graphic art as in his best painting, Gauguin accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose...
...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...
Stated to graduate from Princeton University, where he majored in politics, Fumitaka Konoye, son of Japan's Premier, failed to get his degree, thought that his father ''might be quite angry" when he returned to Japan without...
...because the banks are under too severe restrictions in their lending and investing operations. This is due both to Federal and State bank-examination policies and to the regulation of the Comptroller of the Currency governing investments by member banks. As to loans, many would-be borrowers cannot get deserved accommodation by the banks, not because the bankers are necessarily at fault, but because of the restrictions imposed upon them...
...Brains need oxygen, which they get from the blood. At the time of birth, a child's breathing may be disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...