Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gwyn," Suite German *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"The Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi") Thomas Hans Wiener and his Dance Group "The Street Dancers" ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" ("Night in Venice," Overture) Strauss...
...Attorney General is not a law maker but last week he made what amounted to a law. Lately Congress paved the U. S. statute books with a good intention when it enacted the Johnson Law, forbidding any U. S. citizen or firm to float loans or extend new credit to any foreign government in default on its debts to the U. S. Unfortunately the Administration itself did not know what that meant. Secretary Hull had to ask Attorney General Cummings whether: 1) a nation that had made token payments on its War debts was in default; 2) Soviet Russia...
...they are worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will cease to exist. Its vitality is verbal." Matisse is a "rug maker," a "pattern maker," a painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said of the content of his painting...
...important point is that every time a burst shell fragment finds its way into the brain, the heart, or the intestines of a man in the front line, a great part of the $25,000, much of it profit, finds its way into the pocket of the armament maker...
...arms industry, say Attorneys Engelbrecht & Hanighen, is comparatively innocent. Biggest U. S. ammunition maker is Du Pont, whose business is so diversified that only 2% of it in the last two years has been military products. "There is no single armament company in the U. S. comparable to the Schneider group in France or Vickers-Armstrong in England." As far as deliberately fomenting breaches of the peace is concerned, U. S. arms makers might echo Bannerman & Sons' conscious innocence: "No firearms are ever sold in our store to any minor. We will not sell weapons to anyone...