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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the circus will be represented at the Smoker in the person of two dwarfs and a giant, but the chances of seeing the Terror, billed as the largest ape ever kept in captivity, are remote. Frank Buck, of "Bring them back alive" fame, may supplement this performance...
...type of British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton...
Widener Library authorities have indicated a willingness to cooperate with other American libraries in an attempt to save the National Library of Vienna's non-Aryan books from the torches of Hitler. Twenty of the nations largest libraries are taking part in the movement started by the librarian of Williams college...
Guaranty's Case, With the aplomb of a man at the head of the third largest U. S. bank, Guaranty Chairman William Chapman Potter's affidavit retorts: "I resent these allegations in the complaint and in Mr. Young's affidavit and brand them as utterly false. The Guaranty Trust Co. has repeatedly told Mr. Young and his representatives that ... the only desire of the Guaranty Trust Co. was to protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were...
...canvases exhibited at the Witney were from the Cincinnati Art Museum and most have not in 60 years been seen in the east. All but two were from Duveneck's best period, the 1870s and 1880s. During those years Duveneck was a famous expatriate with one of the largest followings among young painters that any U.S. artist has ever had. A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals. In such paintings as The Bohemian...