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Custom requires the hanging of a President's portrait in the White House immediately upon his retirement or death. President Coolidge's picture was in place before March 4, 1929. When Harding died in 1923, Congress promptly appropriated $2,500 for a White House portrait. A British artist, Edmund Hodgson Smart, submitted a picture he had painted from life. One delay followed another. The Fine Arts Commission rejected the Smart portrait. After more delays Artist Francis Luis Mora of Gaylordsville, Conn, was commissioned to do another portrait of the late President, using photographs to get the likeness...
...Finally, we hear of 'Artistic Imperialism'; we hear that America draws to herself all of Europe's great artists. But is that the fault of the Americans? An artist is a man, a man like another man, and it is not surprising that he would rather sing, paint or play the piano for $1,000 a day in the United States than for $1,000 a month in Europe...
...this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry, I can't answer that today...
Further complications arose over a gang attack upon Reporter Leland H. Reese of the Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
...properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack...