Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the Department thinks of collecting as the hobby of millionaires, who travel through Europe every summer picking up Botticellis and Anthony Van Dycks. In that case, some course should deal with the value of reproductions and prints of all sorts. At present the one move in acquainting undergraduates with art for collecting, of for the home, is the loan of etchings by the Fogg Art Museum for students rooms. The number of men who responded to the offer should convince the department that interest in objects d'art really exists, and is worth cultivating...
...last season of Congress, the course of action which the United States will follow differs in every respect from that of 1914-1917. A complete embargo on any articles employed in war will remove the American Merchant Marine from the necessity of defending itself. Henceforth American citizens will travel on Italian ships, (and on Ethiopian ships too) only at their own responsibility...
What the Council proposes to do is spend $100,000 or more per year in attempting to persuade U. S. citizens to drink like gentlemen, to acquire "an attitude of individual responsibility toward the use of liquor. Our messages will travel over the airwaves, reach the eye and ear through the screen and stage, and fashion public thought through advertising and other kinds of publicity...
...pain increased and later investigation revealed a kidney had been ruptured. Unable to travel farther, he was carried to the feet of the mountain by his companions and a car summoned from the nearest town. The ride back from to civilization was over a long, hot route not improved by the exceedingly poor roads...
...Author. Born in New York City in 1894, short, dark Raymond Holden graduated from Princeton in 1915, served on the Mexican border with the National Guard and in the Army during the War. Afterwards he worked in a publishing office, on the staff of Travel Magazine, was an executive editor of The New Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded...