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...hopelessly inadequate in the more intricate investigation. Circling the world today, from the jungles of Slam, where Dr. Andrews is making his ethnological observations, to the mountain fastnesses of the Chilean Andes, where altitude studies are being made by Dr. Keyes and the Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard is everywhere the patron of scientific research. With anthropological and archeological studies increasing in importance every year, Harvard has adopted the commendable policy of supplying its individual departments with ample funds to carry out this work, rather than rest shakily on the grants of philanthropic individuals...
...single masterpiece. As long ago as 1931 he had started putting money into a trust fund to build a public art gallery in Washington. These facts were developed at a tax hearing in Pittsburgh last week (see p. 14). With the air of introducing a great patriot and generous patron, Frank J. Hogan, Mr. Mellon's astute Washington attorney, announced that his client had put $3,200,000 into his museum trust fund in 1931, that the Alba Madonna would go into that museum along with four other great canvases which Mr. Mellon bought from Moscow's Hermitage...
...which, curiously, has always added its support to the "redneck" Bilbo following. When he was Mississippi's Governor in 1916, The Man Bilbo appointed Eugene Sykes a justice of the State Supreme Court, successfully supported him for election when his appointive term expired. Going into eclipse with his patron, Judge Sykes was rescued therefrom in 1927 by Mississippi's Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, who got him an appointment to the Federal Radio Commission. When the Radio Commission became the Communications Commission last June, Judge Sykes was continued as chairman of the new body. When Theodore Bilbo entered...
Died. George Dupont Pratt, 65, son of the late Charles Pratt who made a fortune in Standard Oil; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove. L. I. Patron of many a public cause, he collected works of art. served ably as New York State Conservation Commissioner, helped found the Boy Scouts of America, develop Saratoga Springs...
Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...