Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Museum of Modern Art has become best known in recent years for its tremendous loan exhibitions, sponsored by its patron, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Just as worthy, though it can seldom be seen, is its permanent collection, based on the private collection of French masters assembled by the late Lillie P. Bliss. Most popular recent acquisition: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali's famed Surrealist panel of limp watches on a dead tree. Last week preliminary plans were filed by Architect Philip Goodwin for a new building to allow more of this permanent collection to remain on view...
...round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville store by exposing its sale of shoddy blankets to flood sufferers; drove loan sharks out of Nashville by publicity last year. While not endorsing Landon, the Banner in last year's election was quite evidently not New Deal...
...today an artist of even moderate reputation has half the product of his studio almost continuously on tour at loan exhibitions of dealers and provincial museums. For this he gets nothing except the vague possibility of making a sale, must stand damage and insurance on his own pictures. To force galleries to pay rental fees no matter how small on exhibited pictures became an important issue with a group of artists known as the American Artists' Congress...
Activities of the P.B.H. law organization include the arranging for Langdell lecturers during the year, the management of a loan library of 500 books, and, recently, the promotion of a plan for better athletic facilities for the graduate student. While nothing has yet been done officially about this move there has been widespread interest among the students in the Law School...
Since June 1935, Prosecutor Dewey had brought 52 loan shark and prostitution racketeers to trial, sent every one to prison. But those convictions had been incidental to his major objective. After 18 months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...