Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting department, there is one branch of the Metropolitan that needs to apologize to no one-the Department of Arms & Armor. Today the Metropolitan is fourth in importance in the world's armories. Ranking just after Vienna, Paris and Madrid it can elevate its ventail at Milan and the Tower of London. Last week the trustees of the Metropolitan unveiled a bronze tablet designed by Sculptor Daniel Chester French and dedicated a hall of armor to the memory of the man who, by giving the hall, made the Metropolitan armorially fourth -the late Bashford Dean, Curator of Arms & Armor...
...Milan last week Italy's General Bankers Confederation cheered a typical and popular U. S. stockbroker, a genial fellow of 54, who, with his young wife, lately honeymooned in Honolulu: Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, retiring president of the New York Stock Exchange...
Walter Ferris, author of "Death Takes A Holiday", has done an American version of the Hungarian, Arpad Posztor's "Dice". This too is on the Professional Players' list. Another is "As You Wish Me". Pirandello's latest sensation which was produced in Milan last month. The wide interest shown in the Professional Players Organization has already resulted in a large number of subscriptions being taken...
...January 1930, Sir Percival sailed for Turkey and came back overland through Europe, leaving consternation in his wake -such as the Steyr scandal in Vienna and the Isotta-Fraschini affair in Milan (TIME, March 31). Back in London, "Sir P.," who is after all an Englishman, did not join Mr. Ford in lambasting his countrymen. Instead, for his part, he discreetly praised the European workman, thus: "Laboring under the same conditions and receiving the same high wages the European workman is more efficient than the American, who is no miracle worker...
Commendatore Cella, General Manager of Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. beamed cheerfully in his Milan office last week, admitted that negotiations were successfully under way whereby the aristocratic Isotta company would manufacture Fords, importing 30% of the parts from the U. S., making the rest in an extension of their Milan plant. Undecided is a scheme whereby Isotta Co., already the largest manufacturer of airplane motors in Italy, would turn out trimotored Ford planes as well...