Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great George Bellows. As he taught he learned, particularly from conversation with such friends as his colleagues in "The Eight" (Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, William J. Glackens, George Luks, the late Arthur B. Davies), a group which spurred the militant Society of Independent Artists and encouraged U. S. painting as such. Within a few hours of Artist Henri's death, a Henri memorial association was formed at the artist...
...foreign parts last year went 515,000 U. S.-built motor cars. To the U. S. came 566 foreign-made cars. To Washington last week went Alvan Macauley, president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and of Packard Motor Co., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, R. I. Roberge, export manager of Ford Motor Co., Walter C. White, president of White Co. (trucks) and other automotive men. They went at the invitation of Pennsylvania's Senator David A. Reed, head of the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on metals...
Following Packard's Macauley came General Motors Sloan. Mr. Sloan appeared nervous, spoke quickly, tensely, used no notes. He endorsed the 10% position. He added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought...
...directorate of the Association includes such names as Quincy Bent, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, Lawrence Aloysius Downs, President of Illinois Central, and Matthew Scott Sloan, president of New York Edison. Actual standardizing activities, however, will be carried on along the original engineering lines. The Association also announced a close contact with the U. S. Bureau of Standards, one of its directors being George Kimball Burgess, the Bureau of Standards head...
Automobiles. A movement within the committee was started by Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to reduce or eliminate the 25% ad valorem tariff on motor cars. Theory: this U. S. industry, with its huge exports, no longer needs protection. Motormen Henry Ford, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Alvan Macauley (Packard, National Automotive Chamber of Commerce) and Walter C. White, were among those invited to step forward and give their views on this change. When they failed to make prompt response, there was committee talk of subpoenaing them...