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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Exposition of 1900, René Lalique was acclaimed the leading jeweler of France. Craftsmanship in jewelry meant working for a small circle of elegant ladies and learned amateurs. Lalique wanted a larger audience, so he turned to glass, presently managed to reproduce his designs in quantity without lowering their quality. Noteworthy were the four-part molds he devised to permit deeper reliefs, the color effects he achieved by varying the size and shape of one-tone glass. Soon he was designing everything from glass crucifixes to glass radiator caps. "Lalique" became a word for glass at its French best...
...intimate friends he is a sweet and lovable character. His absentmindedness is fabulous. He sometimes shows up a week late for appointments, goes to the wrong room to meet his classes, has been known to wander into ladies' washrooms. He often goes out into the snow without rubbers or muffler, but rarely catches cold. Despite his absentmindedness, he is scrupulous about fulfilling obligations, never breaks a promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism by budding philosophers. But applicants learned how to get around his rule: they brought manuscripts...
...owned by the American Legion, has nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same...
Lunching with Manhattan's Bond Club, Under Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes stood up and predicted an era of business expansion soundly based on the investment of new capital in utility and industrial plants with or without war. Said he: "We were on the road to economic recovery prior to Poland." This naturally warmed the hearts of his hearers and encouraged them in expansion...
...construction company which is not usually afraid to bid is the industry's aristocratic Turner Construction Co. About half of its business is handed to it on a cost-plus basis without the indignity of competitive bidding, and it boasts that in four years picked at random (1923-27-29-30), its bills on 151 sample buildings costing $69,725,000 actually cut an average of nearly 2% from bid estimates; that over 60% of its business is repeat ordering by old clients...