Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with a diamond-pointed pencil) and work on a life of Cosimo de' Medici...
...company got it reduced to $50,000,000, paid a $2,000,000 personal property tax, promptly moved its books and records to Linden. There town fathers slapped on a $75,000,000 "omitted assessment." Standard paid a $1,000,000 tax and began looking for still another home...
Three weeks ago Italy intended to ship the art treasures she had shown at the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition directly home (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week Italy changed her mind. Husky, enthusiastic Director Daniel Catton Rich of the Chicago Art Institute announced that the entire group would be shown there for two months beginning Nov. 17. Chicago's art lovers had worked on Chicago's Italian-Americans, who worked on grey-mustached Prince Ascanio Colonna, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who worked on his Government...
...worries. Children, she believes, always sense such worries, feel insecure themselves. When a mother worries because her children disobey, sulk or fight, Mrs. Baruch brings her to school, lets her observe other children and find out that disobedience, sulking, fighting are normal childish behavior. Result: The mother goes home feeling more tolerant toward herself and children, more serene...
...characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues; but in a sweeping and rather dictatorial way, he hammers his point home...