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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ahead the Treasury did not look just yet. The net effect of the 75th Congress' whopping appropriations and authorizations will not be known until it is seen: 1) how much more money will have to be voted for Relief after next March; 2) how far Government revenues fall in fiscal 1939 due to Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...Manhattan, another ex-G-Man, Tom Tracy, declared in the Daily News: "Because of our moral aloofness to the great international pastime of snoop-look-and-listen, America has become just one vast peek-easy...
...pastoral symphony. In his landscapes, Cezanne did not try to reproduce the appearance of the scene he painted, but to recreate in paint the emotions that the scene produced on him. The Cubists went further, tried "to evoke emotions by the exhibition of colored forms" which did not "look like" anything in particular. But Ozenfant showed (by photographs of cubistic and surrealistic-like scenes from modern life, by reproductions of Egyptian and prehistoric art) that the paintings of abstract artists were related to the contemporary steel-&-stone world, or to the art of earlier periods. Painting has a vocabulary...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...