Word: unwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viennese. Since last August the Phaidon Press of Vienna has distributed through the Oxford University Press in New York and through Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in London eight volumes of reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya...
England has lately had a building boom and last week Sir Raymond Unwin appeared in Manhattan to study U. S. efforts in the same direction. Sir Raymond was knighted in 1932 for giving nearly 40 of his 70 years to planning garden cities and improving Britain's housing. But he found one significant difference between the housing boom in Britain and the hoped-for boom in the U. S. In England 260.000 working men's houses were built in the past year after construction costs had fallen...
...Publisher: Allen & Unwin...
...triumvirate which British newspapers have called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching...
...Union of South Africa, on the West by the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland and on the North (of course) by Northern Rhodesia which is a non-self-governing-colony without a parliament or premier. Proud indeed are Southern Rhodesians of their Parliament and of hardy, pioneering Premier Howard Unwin Moffat, their Chief Delegate last week at the Ottawa Conference...