Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first is that from his early days Picasso has hated to let any of his pictures go. "No painting is ever finished" is one of his gloomy sayings, and it is true that his studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...
Chairmanned by Attorney James L. Magrish, they divided into subcommittees to work out a plan. Since no town feels it is grown-up until it is pierced by a subway (Chicago is finally digging one), the most likely result of their deliberations will probably be an attempt to sell Cincinnati taxpayers on the downtown loop, send good money after...
First proposal to sell out to TVA came from Willkie, early in 1934. All last year, he and TVA dickered sporadically over a fair price for Tennessee Electric Power Co., chief C. & S. subsidiary involved. The amount invested in Tennessee Electric Power's electric division was found by independent audit to be a net of $86,300,000. Mr. Lilienthal, mentioning depreciation, offered $55,000,000, presently raised...
Said Fischer: "The Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...
This idea is not new. There are hundreds of Fallen Oak Teachers' Colleges which sell Child Psychology and Fourth Grade Methods in wholesale quantities. What is new is Dean Holmes' emphasis on the necessity of correlating the science of education with knowledge of the liberal arts subject itself. The two must be integrated so that each individual teacher can apply his technical knowledge differently...