Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German museums have kept their excellent modern collections in cellars since the Aggrandizer of the Reich defined modern art as "degenerate." Last week they attempted to sell some choice examples of degeneracy on the international market. Up at auction in the big ballroom of the Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland...
Last December Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., who eight years ago was an agriculturist but now talks economics with some assurance, hooked his pince-nez on his nose and looked a twelvemonth ahead. Prosperity, he told his economic experts in the Treasury, would be back in 1939. By prosperity he meant...
Homeric was the proxy fight launched by tall, studious Langbourne Meade Williams Jr. in 1928 before the ink was fairly dry on his Harvard Business School diploma. On his side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams...
Starting his campaign without help from Manhattan brokerage houses, which had no desire to exchange shots with National City interests, young "Lang" Williams spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying...
Actually the sale of cheap books in the U. S. is a good deal bigger than most people suppose. Reprints, at 39? to $2.49, total at least 10,000,000 copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000...