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...single tax theories. The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips, a Virginian who is indeed a single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass...
...Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites...
...Bearded, bad-tempered, 77-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch of England, a famed researcher and maker of fine instruments, plays, somewhat badly, in ensemble with his wife, his two daughters, his two sons, his in-laws. Better known for their records (Victor) than for concerts are Ben Stad, Dutch-born Philadelphian who began as a violinist, and his American Society of the Ancient Instruments. This is also a family affair, composed of Mrs. Stad, a son, a brother-in-law and a close friend named Jo Brodo who plays the quinton (five-stringed treble viol...
Such was the vision conjured up last week by a committee of technicians and scientists which President Roosevelt year ago set to studying the use and control of water in the Mississippi Valley. For chairman the President had chosen a sturdy, handsome, enthusiastic Philadelphian whom he, as Governor of New York, had put on that State's Power Authority. A topnotch consulting engineer and one-time president of the Taylor ("Scientific Management") Society, Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an old hand at broad-gauge planning through service on the War Industries Board and the Committee on the Costs of Medical...
Detroit. Artist who has spent the most time with the most success portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint...