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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth and his first assistant, Russell J. Ryan, had resigned...
...Manhattan art critics were surprised twice in quick succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human...
...Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...
...Once or twice a year, Copey gives his regular readings to the now Freshman Class in the Union, and from time to time sees a few members of the class, selected by their English teachers, in his apartment on Concord Street. So it cannot be said that the mellow influence of one of Harvard's greatest teaching personalities will be unfelt by the Class...
...Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous administration and the new Governor...