Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried lest a booming U.S. industry drag this country into war, two important executives have recently provided strong words of reassurance. Colby M. Chester, president of the General Foods Co., and Ernest T. Weir, head of the big Weirton Steel Co., have both issued statements within the past month to the effect that "American business does not like war because it knows that war is bad business." They went on to say that industrial leaders in this country realize that a war boom is disastrous in the long run, and that they would act accordingly...
...Europe and the U. S. for the Carnegie International, world's biggest competitive show of contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess...
...sustain current levels of business activity there is need for greater consumption by the public, as well as increased capital expenditures by business or enlarged exports. . . . Before the war started the business outlook was good, but the speculative price and inventory activity of the past month has endangered this prospect...
...least three first-rate English writers were paying the U. S. the compliment of "exile"-which at least two great U. S. writers (Henry James and T. S. Eliot) had paid to England in the past. W. H. Auden (rhymes with applaudin'), whose search for noonday truth took him to Iceland in 1936 (Letters From Iceland), then to Spain during the Civil War, then to China (Journey to a War), last week had taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from...
...Stephen Spender, most lyrical of left-wing poets, the Soviet-German pact seemed to "make nonsense of most of the left-wing writing of the past ten years." He saw the war as "the most extraordinary confusion, in which each side is fighting to produce chaos in the other before it has lost control of itself. ... As I haven't been told to do anything, I can devote myself to writing, perhaps my posthumous works...