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...whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical...
...group will pursue the same policy either through inclination or necessity." Dr. Currie explained that in the disturbed state of international confidence during the past two years, however, it is probable that an independent monetary expansion policy initiated have would have resulted in a fight from the dol- lar of such proportions as to have endangered the success of the policy. Hence so long as we remained on the gold standard the need for international monetary cooperation was real and pressing. With our departure from gold the whole picture was changed and indeed the raison d'etre of the conference...
...thick of any price war, declared that Price Bros, "now intends to adopt immediately whatever independence of policy and action it may be compelled to follow in order to protect its position and the interest of its stock-holders." Ernest Rossiter, president of St. Lawrence Corporation Ltd., gave simi- lar notice to the Institute. Meanwhile Quebec's Premier Louis Alexandre Tasch-ereau, who with Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario had much to do with the formation of the Institute (when they were trying to up the price to $60 per ton) declared himself "completely in the dark...
...labors of the prodigious Lope Felix de Vega (1562-1635) who wrote 520 plays, has been upheld in a more credible fashion by the Quinteros. Between 1897 and 1912 they wrote more than 80 of their sly, kindly, classically re strained dramas. Among the most popu lar: El Patio, Las Flares, El genio alegre, Malvaloca...
...Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize him, he asked, to send a circu- lar memorandum and questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little enough to ask ? after such a luncheon. Unanimously the guests voted as Host Briand wished?a mere gesture, but without something...