Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circular letters were received by 10,000 employes of the Department of Agriculture asking contributions to build the Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park. Replying to criticism, the collector in charge explained: "This is a strictly voluntary proposition...
...waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal, the Library paid Lowenberg's widow...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...last summer Seattle's Collector of Customs Haas dined with the Applebys at their house in Chevy Chase, admired the firefly display on the lawn. Mary Ellen asked if there were fireflies in Seattle. Mr. Haas said no. Mary Ellen was grieved. She caught 40 of the little creatures, sent them out to Mr. Haas's fireflyless home town. But they all died on the way or shortly after arrival. Concluding that adult insects could not be colonized,* Mary Ellen arranged to have 600 larvae shipped to Seattle, to mature after reaching there. It was from these larvae...
...money and plans for a National Gallery worthy of housing them in Washington, he expressed the hope that it would "attract other gifts from other citizens who may in the future desire to contribute works of art of the highest quality to form a great national collection." First notable collector to live up to Andy Mellon's expectations is 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress, who last week came forward with a donation of 375 paintings and 18 pieces of sculpture valued at about $30,000,000-more than half as costly as that made by the unfinished...