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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy of Natural Sciences, like Manhattan's American Museum, is also out to raise millions. But this is a new idea. Until last March when he conducted an astonishingly successful Symposium on Early Man, Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader, 51, the museum's unpaid managing director thought of raising merely $374,915 from other rich Philadelphians "for a five-year educational program." Up went Mr. Cadwalader's imagination and requests to $10,000,000 for endowment and $8,000,000 for a new building. And the trustees of this oldest (125 years) museum of natural history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Wants | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Oscillion | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...something unusual happens during the year, I feel that the earnings will be very satisfactory." As to labor conditions, they were "satisfactory to the company." When a stockholder requested amplification of the company's labor relations Director Pierce outlined the history of its contracts, then had the happy thought of introducing Mr. Fremming, who made a nice little speech about how Harry Sinclair's labor policies were outstanding in the oil industry. Before he finished buttering Consolidated, its officials and stockholders, Mr. Fremming pronounced relations of Consolidated and its workers "ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Buttered Oil | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...picture represents a type which is seldom seen here and is by an artist who is little known in America. Although Devis is usually thought of as one of the lesser lights of the eighteenth century, half way between Hogarth and Gainsborough, he is to collectors a well known but rare figure, and his pictures as a rule bring very good prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...Ford employees will mean approximately $6,000,000 additional dues for the C.I.O. and the complete control of the automotive industries of America--an immense and dangerous amount of power for any man or small group. That John Lewis is looking ahead to 1940 is a far more disquieting thought than that he is promising the contented Ford employees even better conditions under his own rule-of-thumb and the aegis of his C.I.O...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN LEWIS LOOKS AHEAD | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

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