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...Grosz has had quite as sound academic training as Jonas Lie, but since the War he has lost interest in fishing boats, cows, rocks. An embittered critic of the bourgeoisie, he does biting caricatures on canvas of bloated politicians, policemen, militarists, ?subjects appalling to genteel Jonas Lie. The upshot of the argument was that George Grosz was not invited to the League, that both President Sloan and Director Lie resigned. Jonas Lie's resignation was not accepted. Mollified, he withdrew it. The Board had another wordy meeting trying to decide whether to accept President Sloan's resignation "with deepest...
...Upshot of the surgeon-journalist conference on cancer was that the surgeons would find a writer who knows medicine or (more difficult) a doctor who knows journalism to bombard the public with cancer warnings...
...Upshot of Father Tacchi-Venturi's spadework was a conference between Count Cesare de Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. After Count de Vecchi left, the Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Father Tacchi-Venturi were closeted until late in the afternoon. Later His Holiness said: "We do not know whether a solution can be reached in a short or long time, but it certainly will be reached when the Lord wishes-that is to say, at the moment most suitable for the good of souls...
...Area only to Pittsburgh Coal Co.) and United Mine Workers officials on June 18. United Mine Workers had already agreed with two smaller companies on a wage scale of 58? a ton for loading machine-mined coal, 78? a ton for "picked" coal. $4.80 for day work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last week the company offered work to union miners for the first time in four years. United representatives said that 1,800 men had gone back to Pittsburgh Terminal. National Miners Union, whose wage demands differ very little from those granted...
...Upshot: Mr. Vanderbilt sued his wife for divorce; threatened to sue Mr. Arno for alienating her affections. Mr. Arno, who is in Reno to get a divorce from Lois Long ("Lipstick" of The New Yorker), meditated a suit against Mr. Vanderbilt for slander...