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...time-honored gripe of U. S. artists is that big museums do not buy enough works by living artists. This is true, but it is not true without qualifications which irate artists usually omit. Last year the favorite butt of these attacks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bought no less than 28 paintings by contemporary U. S. artists, including Waldo Peirce, William Gropper, George Biddle. In general, museums have not only loosened up in this respect, but have begun to spend less money on the acquisition of sacred masterpieces and more on a job just as essential to the artist...
...Cause of Gripe Sirs...
Clayton's gripe about the tariff, to wit: The tariff raises Southern cotton production costs above world costs; hampers cotton exports by impeding industrial imports...
...friends," he bellowed, dropping his cigar, "You, who as fresh men have come to fill my depleted ranks, there is much I have to say unto you. For I am in plenty gripe". Whereat he picked up his cigar and puffed moodily...
...fact that there are always some people who must have something to gripe about was amply proven in yesterday's CRIMSON by the letter from the Mouthpiece of the Workers of America, The Champion of the Downtrodden Masses, or the Maryrs to the Cause of Pacifism, better known as the National Student League...