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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marine Corps with rank of Major General succeeding retiring Major Genera John Henry Russell; in Washington...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...
...Engineer. From now on Communist organs will call this Democracy. An audacious touch in Moscow last week was for Intourist guides to tell visiting foreigners: "Our new Constitution is a million times more Democratic than any other!" The new and adroit Communist Constitution, indeed, almost entitled J. Stalin to rank with the immortal H. Dumpty of Through the Looking-Glass who boasted, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean...
...those voiced in the Confidential Guide for the past two years, the much-needed improvements in Chemistry A are still overlooked. As an introduction to concentration in Chemistry, the course proves to be disheartening and even disastrous to many men. For brilliant students it is excellent, but for the rank and file it is too comprehensive. The lectures by Professor Lamb are the only redeeming feature, but even these are not without flaw. Reading is not coorelated with them, and test questions are often based on material not given in either lectures or reading...
...purple path of Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's committee investigating bondholders' reorganizations led to Philadelphia for a second time, Philadelphia Co. investors packed the Federal Building to hear what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "one of the most sensational exposes of alleged practices in Philadelphia's top-rank financial world within memory of the present generation." When the Sabath committee scored, the investors cheered. When the sweating bankers offered explanations, they booed and waved empty pocketbooks. Sample revelations...