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...From Washington came announcement that a conference would be called to bring together miners and operators. President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers had suggested such a meeting to President Hoover in a message saying that the plight of miners was "below animal standards." Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont emerged from a meeting with the President, announced that some 125 invitations had been sent to bituminous operators asking if they would attend a discussion with workers in the near future. Three weeks prior Secretary Lamont had summoned a dozen of the big bituminous operators to a conference...
...Chicago last week, Miss Llewellyn Jones, social executive of the Stevens Hotel ("world's largest") declared that perhaps the Stevens would get some gigolos too. She had talked the matter over "quite seriously" with Hollywood's Mrs. Hubbell...
...motorcycle, and about 100 assorted Londoners. Editors did not doubt that this overcrowded, execrable composition would be another Picture of the Year, gave it full page reproduction in both Britain and the U. S. Without warning it was rejected by the white-mustached President of the Academy, Sir William Llewellyn, and his selection committee...
...Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...
Reginald Grenville Eves, once known as a protege of that bearded New Englander John Singer Sargent, now famed as a portraitist, submitted three slick and shiny pictures. They were instantly accepted, for Reginald Eves was up for election as an Academician. A few days later long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...