Word: snobbism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Independents were a brave cause in 1916 when able young Artists Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows. Samuel Halpert, Walter Pach and A. S. Bay-linson founded it. Then the National Academy of Design's snobbism smothered unorthodox U. S. art. Now Henri, Halpert and Bellows are dead, and the discovery of new U. S. art has become a highly organized business. Except for pictures by Founders Sloan, Pach, Baylinson and a few others, only "undiscovered" art hung last week on the walls of a long room like a warehouse. The Independents have no judges, no jury, no awards...
...Messieurs, what is it but snobbery-le snobbism epouvantable-which causes Frenchmen to buy foreign cars?" demanded Louis Renault, Dean of French motor makers, last week. "If foreign cars should come to dominate the French market, what a calamity! . . . To have lost a million and a half men in the war to escape German tutelage, only to fall under the tutelage of America! Mon Dieu that would be more than Frenchmen could bear! Tell these things to your readers-urge them to support the wise, the necessary law of M. Flandin." French reporters bowed and withdrew...