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...Richer Abroad. The Dutch are today the largest holders of gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities of any continental European nation (about $6,000,000,000) and the largest foreign holders, next to the British, of U. S. securities (about $1,000,000,000). But the greatest wealth of The Netherlands is the wealth of the Indies...
...group of culturally educated persons on the other, would tend to destroy the unifying force in American democracy. For one of the bases of democracy is a common, diversified education. Education along these lines enables all classes of men to communicate with each other, to govern themselves, to lead richer lives. Abolish or seriously restrict a cultural education and the common bond of free men disintegrates...
...endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week, 72 and ailing, Dr. Flexner retired as the Institute's director. To succeed him, the trustees elected Dr. Frank Aydelotte, 59, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. secretary for the Rhodes Scholarships...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...