Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many people, however, will dispute the fact that the Disney Studios are producing the art of a whole nation, they will say that it is a mere passing fad, accelerated by the Metropolitan Museum's acceptance of a few pictures and by a college professor's study of Disney work. But when they say this they are not looking at the facts, for the American public as a whole has long been conscious and long interested in animated movies, and there is no indication of cessation in this interest. It is almost safe to predict that the American public will...
...plea that "the Jewish issue is too pressing for mere political puttering," the Independents announced last night that they would hold a rally on Wednesday to support the British plan to find homes for refugee children in Palestine...
...Spanish government pavilion at the Paris exposition of 193 7, and a series of hairy-nightmare etchings entitled Dreams and Lies of Franco. At the same time, Picasso's previous work has begun to emerge from the smoke of controversy into the lucidity of history. Not a mere canonization but a symptom of universal stock taking was the announcement last week by the Art Institute of Chicago and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art of a huge, joint retrospective show of Picasso for next autumn. And various other sources, including that vivacious storyteller, Gertrude Stein* have lately increased...
Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...
...hard-pressed Harrison Williams had sold nearly half his holdings for a mere $28,000,000. His remaining 51% control of Central States, through a bizarre series of other holding companies, gave him a net interest of 18.3% in North American. This is the sort of setup the Public Utility Holding Company ("death sentence") Act of 1935 was specifically designed to alter. Shrewd Harrison Williams was the first of the major utility tycoons to submit to its painful yoke, and North American registered with SEC in February 1937. By last fall when SEC finally forced the rest of the industry...