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Although PBH has been around since the 1920s, the University has only recently begun to respond to community needs, says Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, adding "We're seeing big change from the last 300 years in community relations...
...credit, Nicholas refused to authorize propaganda use of the Protocols once he learned they were phony. But they circulated surreptitiously in Russia and translations proliferated. In the early 1920s, Henry Ford's weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent, incorporated the Protocols in a series of anti-Semitic articles. These, including the Protocols, were published as a book (The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem) that eventually sold half a million copies. The Rev. Charles Coughlin, the radio priest, harangued his listeners about the Jewish plot...
...than real. It depends on the unfamiliarity of the sources he adroitly quotes. How many people in America have heard of, let alone seen, the work of Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...
Noteworthy Typewriter Stunts and Tricks. In the late 1920s, the Royal Typewriter Co. dropped 11,000 parachuted typewriters out of a plane over Hartford, Conn. This was intended to increase sales. Tricks with typewriters were also popular in the early days, such as making palm trees out of capital I's and asterisks. Placing such things in a composition must have offered problems, but they are said to have given much...
DIED. Earl Kenneth ("Fatha") Nines, 77, jazz pianist for 50 years and a seminal figure in American popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...