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...Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building. Both are the fruit of the artistic interests of Toledo's late eminent glassmaker, Edward Drummond Libbey. He founded the Museum in 1901 and the endowment he left it on his death in 1925 is supposed to be anywhere from...
...adhere with exemplary firmness to a policy of never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced collections of art in the U. S. now ranking perhaps fifth among the nation's museums...
...with 49%. Director Godwin and his wife, Molly Ohl Godwin, have built up this following by offering free courses in drawing, painting and music to all the schoolchildren of Toledo, by bringing the best symphony orchestras for free concerts in the Museum's peristyle, thus spending Founder Libbey's money as much for the benefit of Toledo's citizens as for the enrichment of their museum...
...Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important to Mr. Lewis than the wage increases thus won was the settle-ment of these strikes, which might have shut down a good...
Most serious threat to the motor industry came last week as the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile...