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...prices in an emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle...
Such a thing had never happened before in diplomatic history. Had the onetime copperman from Montana deliberately snubbed King George's representative? Not at all. Minister McDowell had simply followed the wishes of the de Valera Government. To be sure that Britain would not be insulted, the Free State High Commissioner in London, John W. Dulanty, had obtained King George's permission to break an ancient precedent...
Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise...
Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy...