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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funny Man? Even more significant are the changes in his psychological climate. The well-known Hitler craving for solitude has developed even more, but with it has come a greater fondness for entertaining. Never has he been host to as many guests as during this year. Youngest of the three big European dictators (Mussolini is 55, Stalin about 60), he works the least of any of them. He rarely bothers with details, has no capacity for long, tedious hours at his desk, is able to delegate power to trusted subordinates...
...most anyone said last week for Leslie Burgin was that he is a scholar. He has been known to use as many as 20 different languages in one day's interviews. But as an administrator he was constantly damned last week with the faint word "capable." He has been an M. P. since 1929, Minister of Transport since 1937. Best guess as to the reason for the choice: Neville Chamberlain chose a second-rate man to please business interests, who will be irked by the whole idea, would be doubly irked if an energetic man were put in charge...
...merchant marine climbed from 400,000 to 3,700,000 tons. They were the years in which France stabilized her currency, recovering from the post-Ruhr crisis that swept six ministries out of office in 15 months. They were the years when Edward, Prince of Wales, was known as the Empire's greatest salesman. And though England was laboring with an unemployment problem and China was torn by internal revolt, advocates of international cooperation flourished in the capitals of Europe as trade grew, production increased...
Last week was an active week for U. S. illustrators. At its club house on Manhattan's West 24th Street, the big happy family known as the Society of Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most...
...credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...