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...hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave was Velasquez' greatest picture...
...which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane and General Custer's sword and scabbard...
Hundreds of smart businessmen went to Chicago's Palmer House last week to inspect the most complete assortment of typical U. S. gadgets, gimcracks, knick-knacks and thingumabobs ever assembled. It was the fifth annual Premium Buyers' Exposition, to which went representatives of all the big U. S. companies that like to tickle their customers with offers of something for nothing - or almost nothing. High-piled was the Palmer House with balloons, sheets, watch fobs, razor blades, doll carriages, billfolds, tumblers, electric irons, toasters, waffle irons, windproof cigaret lighters, astrological charts, pith helmets. Careening up & down the crowded...
...Washington society it was an occasion, to His Excellency Mehmet Munir Bey, Ambassador of the Turkish Republic,, it was an opportunity. Last week, the pictures and knick knacks of Mrs. John Brooks Henderson's bulbous brownstone castle on 16th Street went on the auction block...
...German toys were largely flimsy knick-knacks but the practical U.S. manufacturers promptly created a toy world modeled on the current industrial scene. Last week they had looms that wove, vacuum cleaners that swept, concrete mixers that mixed, washing machines that washed, dump trucks that dumped, foundries that spouted molten lead, Pullman cars with berths that made up. Buyers had a choice of 50,000 items ranging from doll houses with radios and period furniture to puzzles and knee-action penguins...