Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the defeated Loyalist Catalan Army was pushed over the Spanish frontier into France, one of the greatest exoduses of modern times took place. France had on her hands her greatest refugee problem. The way that problem was handled had developed, by last week, into a world scandal...
...Rockefeller Center's International Building last week, curiously tucked away in a maze of advertising exhibits of home furnishings, a little gallery of architectural photographs made browsers perk up. To most features of the Home Beautiful, exemplified in the exhibit by a tasteless miscellany stuffed in fake "modern" interiors, these pictures gave the lie direct. They showed the actual and honestly beautiful buildings of an extraordinary architect, Antonin Raymond of Japan...
...ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...
...visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer Mae West. Tell me, would you like to go out with Mae West or would you prefer to go out with...