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...features like Henry Ford's. To the Ways & Means Committee he last week explained the smooth and successful workings of Canada's 4% manufacturers' tax. The public, he said, hardly noticed it. By licensing manufacturers it was easy to administer. If it had any one fault, it was that its exemptions were too many...
...British innkeepers put pistols under their pillows when U. S. tourists are in their inns this summer, the fault will be Mr. Collinson Owen's. Collinson Owen spent three months in the U. S. last year viewing the country rapidly and with alarm. He wrote a book published last week under the title King Crime (Henry Holt, $2.50), which contained the following thoughts...
Principles. If the average citizen does not understand the principles of the International Style in architecture the fault is not with its innovators. France's Le Corbusier, most vocal of the lot, has expressed it in a single sentence: "The modern house is a machine to live...
...laughing and crying by turns, she would have a great deal to give to a fragile re mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than before with such material yet it is evident that here face was made for gauze and soft lighting, and her voice for more idyllic liners...
...Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, protesting the calumny. Also, in the absence of Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics Ingalls, he appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Result: the Navy Department retracted its statement, announced an investigation to decide whether the crash was the 'giro's fault or the pilot...