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...next after samplers in the accomplishments of proper little women. No adult productions reflect as limpidly as theirs the ironbound sobriety of that period. Among examples shown last week were an able Baptisam of our Savour by Ann Johnson, age unknown, and five "mourning pictures"- families standing at tombs overhung with weeping willows. Inscriptions: "The Grass Witherith, the Flower Fadeth, and the Hopes of Man is Destroyed"; "Our Dying Friends are Pioneers to Smooth our Rugged Pass to Death...
...reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall to the accompaniment of the Fordson High School band. For publicity purposes the meeting was called "The First Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry and Science." Official sponsor was "The Farm Chemurgic Council." In spite of the dense pall of propaganda that overhung the affair, the assembled Chemurgicians managed to put on record a considerable body of worthwhile information about agriculture-for-industry...
...been politicians who sailed down New York Harbor one morning last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York in 1932 in disgrace, unwilling to face out removal charges before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932 et ante...
...crisis started when great shipments of gasoline were made to the U. S. in time to escape the new Federal tax. These were not sold, overhung the market. Last week because of "conditions of oversupply and widespread price-cutting." Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) ordered one of the severest price reductions in history. The cut amounted to 2.2? in New Jersey. 3.? in all of the company's other States except Delaware where no change was made...
...last week came Japan's great attempt to stabilize the silk market in the same manner the U. S. Farm Board has attempted to stabilize grains and cotton. The great Japanese surplus of 108,000 bales (14,144,000 Ib.) which has overhung the world's silk markets for many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk...