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...within reason, for they have been able to loan money, with profit to themselves, at 2% interest. That was how they could prevent Dillon, Read & Co.* from underwriting all the $60,000,000 bonds of the newly organized German United Steel Works-the consolidation of Thyssen, Phenix, Rheinstal, Deutsch-Luxembourg steel corporations (TIME, July 5). They permitted Dillon, Read to take only one-half of the offering. They took the other half themselves...
...Fourteen nations have not yet acknowledged receipt of the State Department's communication. (Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Hungary, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg...
They began last week selling bonds of the German United Steel Works, the combination of the Thyssen, the Phoenix, the Rheinstal and the Deutsch-Luxembourg. This grouping ranks in wealth and production only below the U. S. Steel Corp...
Hilaire Germain Edgard Degas, long years ago, standing in front of one of Mary Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught...
Before he died, James Abbott McNeill Whistler sold one of his most famed canvases to the Luxembourg, one of Paris' great art galleries. The consideration for the transfer was small, and Whistler is supposed to have understood that some time after his death it would be translated to the magnificent Louvre and hang among the great masters. Whistler died in 1903, but the picture still hangs in the Luxembourg. It is unusual for paintings to be hung in the Louvre until some 50 years after an artist's death...