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...Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent. His chief teacher was Professor Henry Tonks, master of Augustus John and Sir William Orpen, at London's famed Slade School. When he considers himself perfected in portraiture, he proposes to settle down with his wife and daughter in Sussex and paint what most artists love best, landscapes...
Chairman of a New York state commission to develop Saratoga Springs as a moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...
Unemployment. As a first step in his plan to solve the unemployment problem, Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas introduced a resolution authorizing the Treasury to advance $5,000,000 a year to help develop the Colonies and Mandated Territories. Carefully he explained that by developing the Colonies (not the self-governing Dominions) they would directly aid British unemployment by increasing the demand for British exports in those colonies...
...President Ralph A. O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line was also in Rio, contending with Secretary Konder for the same contracts. President O'Neill had stopped there on a flight from San Juan to Buenos Aires surveying for the east coast air line he proposes to develop...
...been suggested, "why not place seniors together and develop your class as a whole at that time?" The answer here is that educationally this is inadvisable as the houses cover the period of a man's preparation for his divisional examinations at the end of the Senior Year, the climax of his scholastic career. To cut off the Senior from his tutors at the most critical time would be unwise. To transfer divisional examinations from the Senior to the Junior year would create an anti climax...