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...exposition at the Grand Central Art Galleries did not lack for potent sponsorship. Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup. One vice president of the exposition is 78-year-old Major-General Hugh Lenox Scott, who in his youth did his bit toward helping the Vanishing American vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent...
...called delegates of the miners to a second fact-finding conference, put before them the discouraging result of the operators' meeting. The workers insisted that only by such a national conference could any progress be made toward curing the industry, that it should be given strength by government sponsorship as suggested by their President Lewis...
...nations producing synthetic nitrates formed a cartel. Year ago the cartel was expanded to include Chile, world's great producer of natural nitrate. Rigorous production restrictions were laid down, price agreements made. To Chile the cartel was a timely aid. Its nitrate industry was being reorganized under the sponsorship of the Brothers Guggenheim; a breathing spell was welcome...
...departments of New York dailies, was discharged more than a year ago from Paul Block's Brooklyn Standard Union. He took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper. News editor is Jack Hyatt, longtime Hearstling. Thirty other ex-newsmen worked on the first...
...market. Banker John Edward Aldred resigned last fortnight as chairman of Gillette, but remains a director. Last week it was asserted that the changes which have ended by placing Mr. Lambert in the position once held by proud King Camp Gillette, have not altered the company's banking sponsorship...