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Beale's 1,676 hitherto unknown drawings reached the Modern Galleries through a retired manufacturer of lantern slides whose name the gallery proprietor last week stanchly refused to reveal. In 1874 the slide-maker had gone quietly to Joseph Boggs Beale and asked him to do a set of drawings to illustrate Pilgrim's Progress. They were a great success with Epworth Leagues and Sunday Schools. Soon the slide-maker asked for other drawings, in black & white, to illustrate books that he one day hoped to publish. From 1880 to 1900, methodical Joseph Boggs Beale produced drawings, always...
After sneering openly at Democratic governments since the Russian Revolution of 1917. the Comintern or World Union of Communist Parties executed in Moscow last week a sudden about-face. Hitherto the duty outside Russia of every Communist has been to cripple his country's war-time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME...
Abruptly last week, and as usual without explanation, the State was closing down many village Torgsin stores which have hitherto supplied Russians with necessities and dainties paid for by remittances in foreign money sent by friends, relatives and charitable organizations abroad...
...only Secretary General of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which boasts more than 30,000 members, but also Vice President of its High Council for Births. With his wife and daughter, M. Boverat stopped in for tea and croissants one afternoon last winter at the hitherto quiet, respectable Restaurant Bagdad. Little did the Boverat family suspect that the Bagdad's proprietor had decided to make a stand against Depression by the drastic step of hiring a fan dancer who had played in some of the hottest cabarets and vaudeville houses from Chicago to Miami...
...being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington it was briskly announced that swank J. Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. State Department will go out to Australia as Consul General at Sydney and consider himself promoted. In top hat and tails, Mr. Moffat...