Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington and Philadelphia beat New York by several years in establishing modern museums, and the art institutions of Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Rochester, Denver, Worcester, Los Angeles and Newark all have large sections devoted to modernist art. Manhattan's firs'; modernist museum, called the Gallery of Living Art, was opened two years ago by New York University in Washington Square, financed by Albert Eugene Gallatin. Three months ago New York's second museum of the kind, The Museum of Modern Art, was established in the Heckscher Building, and when the name of Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and others...
...Charles Schuveldt Dewey (Yale 1904) changed his address from U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C., to Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways...
While America worries about cruisers and forgets isolation policies, the large cities of the nation are overrun with all the accoutrements of modern warfare. The unofficial standing army which overruns New York, Chicago, and Detroit is the proper place to make a large-sized cut, sending a good deal of the emigrant desperadoes engaged in looting the metropolitan centers, back to their native land. The rise of gangland to despotic rule has reached its peak of expansion at least. Disarmament -- like charity -- begins at Home...
...Meeting of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterways Association, at Detroit...
...Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit...