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...would be a real loss to the world," he continued, "should Italy endeavor, by inaugurating machine production ... to eliminate individual craftsmanship ... to do away with her Venetian glass or lace ... her extraordinarily fine leather and stone or wood work." The "whole Ameri can people," he insisted, is "furnish [ing] its homes with furniture of Italian make or design." Indeed, "If we [Americans] wish to study the European backgrounds of the American people of 1930, it is no longer sufficient for us simply to visit England ? we must make a trip to Italy as well?
Three days before, Messieurs les Deputes had started to talk about lace and automobiles. French lacemakers have had a hard time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came back. French lacemakers rejoiced. But their hopes were dashed by the publication fortnight ago of the new U. S. tariff. Lace, embroideries and tulle, depending on quality, are saddled with a duty of from...
...Calais, centre of the machine-made lace industry, an employers' and workmen's committee of seven called politely at the offices of U. S. consul General James G. Carter, explained that what they were going to do was not directed against the people or the Government of the U. S. Then, while the voice of Henri Ravisse, Vice President of the Association of Lace and Tulle Manufacturers, boomed through loudspeakers, "Be calm! Be calm!" 20,000 burghers of Calais paraded mournfully through the streets...
Died. Paul B. Belin, 55, president of Scranton Lace Co., U. S. biggest; at Scranton, Pa.; after an operation...
...Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby is not a name like Rosie Rosenberg. His father was private secretary to the late great Victoria, Queen and Empress, who made "dear little Arthur" her pageboy. From knee breeches and gold lace Mr. Ponsonby grew up to be a Liberal politician, but his conscientious objection to the World War caused him to be ostracised by all his friends and he was forced into the Labor Party. Last week, as one of the staunchest intimates of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ponsonby, M. P., was created Baron...