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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courtney opposed Ed Kelly's renomination on his own hook, raised a hue & cry over Windy City corruption with the aid of Colonel William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Mayor Kelly got practically all other kinds of support available: C. I. O. and A. F. of L., Old Deal and New Deal, the Communist Midwest Daily...
...consists of three Georgian-style buildings which contain 68 laboratories inhabited by 218 scientists. Head of the entire organization is grey-bearded Dr. Louis Martin. There are many laboratory annexes throughout Paris, a large library, a hospital, a model monkey centre for experimental studies, and a farm at Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Paris. The Curie Cancer Center is an outgrowth of the Institute, and there are branches in Indo-China, North Africa, Greece and Persia...
...Americanism. Flag-waving of the George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
...show of 15th, 16th, and 17th-Century Flemish painting ever held in the U. S. Jointly responsible for it were the Worcester Museum's affable, oval Director Francis Henry Taylor and Assistant Director Henri Marceau of the Philadelphia Museum. They succeeded last summer in getting the help of Léo van Puyvelde, distinguished, bluntspoken* director of the Royal Museums of Belgium, who accompanied the show to Worcester...
Next day at a stockholders' meeting in Chicago, Chairman Sewell L. Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., which does about 50% of the nation's plaster business, was asked about the entry of Celotex Corp. m the field (TIME, March 6). Said Chairman Avery: "Monopoly in the U. S. is a joke...