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...critics with every sympathy for the idea back of the arch, for the industry of Sculptor Barnard and for the artistic value of many of the individual figures stayed mum. None dared remind a man who has worked 15 years on one job that a 100-foot arch is not sculpture but architecture. The vast panels of plaster he has designed are white excrescences oozing from masonry. Despite their individual merit and the noble symbolism they represent, not one of the 53 figures has any structural connection with the arch of which it is a part...
With Prime Minister MacDonald and President Roosevelt both keeping mum, Europe was startled by rumors from Berlin that President von Hindenburg will re-sign after the German election of Nov. 12, to be succeeded by Adolf Hitler as unconditional Head of the State...
While Leader Hitler kept mum last week, Minister of Economics Dr. Kurt Schmitt told the Storm Troopers why. "We must destroy as little as possible and build up as much as possible," he sweetly reasoned. "Department stores cannot simply be wiped out of Germany. They employ a quarter of a million people and a billion marks are invested in them...
...more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman, they have kept politely mum...
...Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba win independence from Spain, Cuban sugar has enjoyed a U.S. tariff preference of 20%. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would use his executive power to raise this preferential to 50%. In Washington the President, careful not to antagonize U.S. sugar interests, was publicly mum about his Cuban sugar policy last week, but at least one member of the new Cuban Cabinet seemed to think he knew what it was. This knowing member was Edouardo J. Chibas, President of the Cuban Society of Engineers and an exile living in Washington and New York until...