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Artists all over the Western world took constructive geometry as their guide through the 1920s and '30s. Even the names told the story: a Polish group called Blok, an international survey on the subject called Circle, the famed architecture school called Bauhaus...
Pensions & Pesticides. Another curious Du Pont was Alfred I, who was too busy running the company (in the early 1920s) to visit his children after he divorced his wife. After 14 years he was surprised to learn that his daughter had sat across the aisle from him on a train some years before; he had not recognized her. In the days before social security, Alfred pioneered in the field of old-age pensions, spent $350,000 of his own money in pension checks for Delaware's needy. His cousin and archenemy Pierre shelled...
Some called him a revolutionary, others called him a reactionary, and T. S. Eliot called him the "most fascinating personality of our time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long...
...Daimler-Benz, the maker of Mercedes, both of whose annual sales are well above the $1 billion mark. But Director Stork can draw confidence from the fact that his strategy of offering many models is precisely the same one that Opel's U.S. parent used in the late 1920s to sail past Ford and become the world's largest automaker...
...centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding Quaker mates. But ever since the 1920s, when pioneering President Frank Aydelotte set the matchbox on intellectual fire, Swarthmoreans have won all sorts of academic honors...