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...rather that it was forced on the unwilling President by D. W. Morrow, Ogden Mills, and bankers in Wall Street. They had no illusions about its ending the Depression, but only hoped to ward off the pending financial panic in Germany. Since American bankers had lent large sums of money to Germany between 1924 and 1928. In order that she would be able to make her Reparation payments, her financial collapse would be disastrous to the possibility of Wall Street ever regaining its money. Obviously the only way out was to waive all public debts for the time being...
...collection of Japanese art on exhibit in the Fogg Museum through the month of December is a remarkable collection of Japanese mirrors and scrolls and pottery lent by Charles Bain Boyt, who arranged the exhibit for the Museum...
...vice president of the exposition is 78-year-old Major-General Hugh Lenox Scott, who in his youth did his bit toward helping the Vanishing American vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent the show two Indian paintings from her own collection. Artist John Sloan and Ethnologist Oliver ("Laughing Boy") La Farge helped prepare an elaborate ''Intro duction to American Indian Art" to sell to the customers...
Campbell collected volunteers. His stout friend Lee Guinness lent a yacht. Unfortunately the yacht had been sold, had to be returned to its purchaser by a certain date, so they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...
...Japanese exhibit, which opened yesterday, consists chiefly of tempre paintings and block prints, the majority of which were lent by Yamanaka & Co. Other prints, some Italian pottery, and other art objects were loaned to the museum by Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works...