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...Metropolitan. He signed his work "Inness Jr." Last year one of his pictures, The Only Hope, an elaborate cartoon of the world's return to Christ, set the New York Chamber of Commerce simmering. Chamberman Irving T. Bush wanted to send the picture on tour as a tract, but some of his fellow members insisted that the title, applied to a pale Christ lifted above a shrapnel-spattered court, would be an insult to the Jews. Newspapermen described the controversy, divines dealt with the subject; critics alone kept silent. There was not much to say about technique, for over...
...abdominal viscera, with deficient oxygenation of those tissues. This has been shown to be productive per se of nausea and vomiting, both experimentally and clinically. Careful questioning and search must be made to rule out chronic inflammatory foci, as well as kidney calculus and other diseases of the urinary tract. In women, diseases of the uterus, tubes and ovaries are very likely to cause prolongation of symptoms, and pregnancy in the early months may be an exciting factor, but is usually not such in the later months. It may be interesting to note here that one writer thinks the likelihood...
...Florida realty- "the Floranada Club." An organization entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture...
...Government (doubtless beholding the influx of tourist money to Egypt) offered to buy and raze some 20 blocks in the business section of Athens and give the right of excavation to the American School of Classical Studies* (backed by 40 U. S. institutions). Twenty to 30 feet beneath the tract lies the Athenian market-place as it was known by Themistocles, Plato, Demosthenes, et al., in whose day it was as the Forum in the grand days of Rome. Temples and statues famed throughout antiquity will come to light "of far greater importance than Pompeii...
...island, when the Phipps Estates- of which Henry Phipps, Pittsburgh steel man, former colleague of Carnegie, is the leading figure-bought 3,000 acres in Suffolk County with several miles of frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay. The Phipps estates have also an option on another large tract. A month ago Carl G. Fisher, Miami real estate man, bought 9,-000 acres near Montauk Point. And Otto H. Kahn last week leased for 15 years, with option to purchase, 678 acres at Easthampton -for purposes unmentioned. Shore property is reported to have risen from...