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...visible last week was six years' work that made the show possible. In 1927 Fair President Rufus Cutler Dawes appointed Chauncey McCormick chairman of the committee on art exhibits. The Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
...stepped across the parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon. In the front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu. Behind them loomed the big foreign military attachés of Britain, France, Italy, the U. S. These white officials left the stand as soon as the review was over. The crowd pressed round to listen to speeches...
...name of Maj.-General George Owen Squier, retired chief signal officer of the U. S. Army, stood out from the list of exhibitors. In his baggage of accomplishments are these devices depending upon abstruse physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer...
Birthdays. Maj.-General Clarence Ransom Edwards, "Daddy of the Yankee Division" (71); Author Rudyard Kipling (65); Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield, chaplain of Manhattan's waterfront Sea-mens' Church Institute (60); ex-Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia. Up to last week Australia House had been as unimportant in English eyes as the equally imposing India House -mere symbols both. Up to last week the appointment of a Governor General...