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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Genghis Khan, conqueror of an empire that stretched from Korea to East Prussia, died in 1227, all witnesses of the funeral procession that bore his body home to his native valleys were killed, lest the people learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance...
...relief, composition, portraiture, drapery and the techniques of enlarging and reducing, Sculptor Putnam gracefully includes chapters on ceramics by Carl Walters, on stone and marble carving by Robert A. Baillie, on wood carving by Gleb Derujinsky and on bronze casting by Anton Basky. Her advice to sculptors: learn to be poor and keep in good condition...
...usual there were slogans and sign boards, witticisms touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude...
Last week Britons were chagrined to learn that the Nazis had in part sidestepped this restriction, had taken over $30,000,000 of Czech gold held in London in the name of the Bank for International Settlements. The Czech National Bank had a $30,000,000 credit with the B.I.S. The "World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu...
Metropolitan, already suing WMCA for letting Besdine and Siegel broadcast their stuff, set about dramatizing stories of policyholders who claim to have been victimized by radio insurance counselors. "And, when you finally ask your agent," Commentator Edwin C. Hill tells the radio audience as the episode closes, "you learn you could have gotten that service-without paying a fee-just by consulting your own life insurance agent...