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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John D. Archbold paid for. In 1907 Herr Kreuger returned to Stockholm where, with Paul Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match business. At that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step...
...Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
...tour de force. Felice Carena, little known in the U. S., is an officially recognized painter in Italy, an instructor in Florence's Academia di Belle Arte. He was born in Turin in 1880 and studied largely by himself. His painting has traversed the usual "periods," Romantic, Classic, Modern. The Studio, though recent, gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture...
...Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil's Pit are not modern but ancient men. Producer Lew Collins took a year photographing them in New Zealand. Flabby Maoris desperately fight with sticks and spears, standing face to face in the Japanese manner, all because one chief's son has killed his rival for the hand of another's daughter. The story...
Like Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review, its ancient rivals, the Edinburgh Review matured, grew old, sedate. Last week its editors sadly confessed: "Modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year for observations on life, letters, history and society." They announced the Review's demise...