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Public and Press acclaim of the Democratic offer at once lent it an air of vast importance. Republican enthusiasts even interpreted it to mean Democratic support of the President's policies. President Hoover himself, taking it at face value, telegraphed the Democratic Senate floorleader. Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, his personal acceptance. But tart Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire paraphrased Virgil, saying "Timeo Democrats et dona ferentes [I fear the Democrats, even when bringing gifts...
Ralph Merritt, one of the grapemen, last week declared: "We believe this program ... is of material assistance to the Government in enforcing Prohibition." Charles Collins Teague, a member of the Farm Beard, agreed. Dramatic color was lent their view when many a newspaper, particularly in California, reported that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, No. i U. S. gangster, had issued a threat of death to any Chicago druggist or grocer who accepted a Fruit Industries agency. The Los Angeles Examiner said Capone was incognito in its city, presumably to discuss his new competition at its source. Chicago is the next market...
Works by Blake have been lent by Paul Hyde Bonner '12, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mrs. William Emerson, G. C. Smith Jr. '15, Widener Library (The Amy Lowell Collection), and the library of J. P. Morgan '89. The show is arranged so as to represent the artist in his varied achievements, and enable the spectator to compare different works on the same subject. Blake made his own etchings and printed them, but he and Mrs. Blake water colored them by hand, with the result that the same print is often found in different coloring schemes. A greater part...
...most typical example of the oilman whose wells had gushed richly was Joshua S. Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered the oil industry through...
...exhibition of etchings by Rembrandt is being held at the present time at Fogg Art Museum. While the majority of the prints being exhibited are from the Fogg's own collection, a few important subjects lacking from that collection have been lent by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...