Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About eight years ago the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas, a Buenos Aires shoe company, was lucky enough to sign up a 39-year-old artist named Florencio Molina Campos. The calendars which Artist Campos has been turning out every year for the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas are highly prized rarities in the U. S. and may well be collectors' items when the Compañia's last shoes are worn to dust. Last week this distant reputation materialized in Manhattan in the form of an intent, sardonic, cigar-waving Latin and about 40 paintings...
...famed Negro caterer, pulled up at the cellar door of the American Philosophical Society's Georgian brick building on Philadelphia's Independence Square last week, disgorging trays of fried oysters, crab cutlets, apple salad and fancy cakes. To sleepy loungers in the Square this was a sure sign that the Philosophical Society, oldest and one of the richest of U. S. scientific bodies, was holding its spring meeting...
Returning to his home in San Francisco for his winter vacation, Sophomore Di Maggio puffed with pride, became a little businessman, played host to admirers in his café on Fisherman's Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...
...materialist. Soviet Scientist Oparin waves away the various vitalistic theories which hold that life appeared because of some transcendent animating principle which pervades the universe-or that life has always existed. He also refuses to believe that life was carried to earth in meteorites, since existing meteorites show no sign of containing viable organisms. Dr. Oparin also rejects the theory of free spores or other life-bearing particles driven to earth through interstellar space by impacts from radiation. He holds that ultraviolet or cosmic radiation would kill any such life particles beyond the sheltering blanket of the earth...
...offered for sale in 1868 when membership stood at 500. During the '70s they sold at about $5,000. By 1929 membership was up to the present 1,375, price of a seat reached $625,000. For his $59,000 Robert Haughey gets no seat, merely a letter signed by the secretary of the Exchange notifying him that he has been elected a member. He will then sign the constitution of the Exchange, may hang in his office an etching of the Exchange signed by the president. From 1930 to 1935 Richard Whitney signed about 2,000 such etchings...