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...sale. Events in Europe had played hob with securities sales, only 50.460 shares ($2,523,200 worth) had been subscribed. Last week frustrated A. P. announced that Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America's biggest stockholder) had bought the unsubscribed stock - but not with its own money. Angel of the deal was RFC, rebuffed but ever-ready. It advanced Transamerica $27,533,800 at 3½ % for ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Giannini Changes His Mind | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...half an airplane; the other half, says the speed-loving Futurist, is going so fast it cannot be seen. Aero-music is usually recorded motor roars with interspersed backfires. It was to aeropoetry that Futurist Marinetti turned last week in Venice: My song of joy to Benito Mussolini, Guardian angel who has electrified Futurist poets of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Who Sings War | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript:" 'If I had the wings of an Angel - Over these prison walls I would fly!" Three weeks ago many a Hall County cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor cotton prices, piled into his store in response to his ad. First day of the sale they cleaned his shelves of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Prison Sale | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...years ago Manhattan's up & coming Museum of Modern Art decided to invade Paris, to show the Parisians what U. S. artists had accomplished. Backed by its president and chief angel, genial, glamorless Nelson Rockefeller, the Museum staged an exhibition of U. S. art at the Jeu de Paume Gallery near the Louvre, invited Paris to come and take a look. So successful was the venture that the Modern Museum decided to go on from there, show Paris the artistic achievements of other American countries. Last summer President Rockefeller went to Mexico City to make arrangements for a Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexican Show | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...that time Dwight Macdonald had belatedly capitulated to the Depression's reddest virus, become an apostate from business and grown a (small) Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Radical Intellectuals | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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