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Fishing on his 2,000-acre ranch in the Black Hills of Wyoming, Moses Louis Annenberg heard last month that the Philadelphia Inquirer could be purchased by anyone who had a desire to own a large morning newspaper and $15,000,000 in cash. Mr. Annenberg had both. Forthwith he sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit...
...letters he wrote for me have languished in my desk this while, as well as one I wrote to him to Ketchikan which was returned forthwith marked simply, "not here." I had about decided to put the episode away and to think no more about it, but your piece has stirred me and I felt I wanted to write...
...have determined," announced Franklin Delano Roosevelt one day last summer, "that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed Youth." Forthwith the President, by executive order, set up the National Youth Administration, appointed Assistant FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams as director, gave him $50,000,000 to spend on jobless U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25 (TIME, July 8, 1935). Last week the NYA reached its first stocktaking milestone as Director Williams, having spent his $50,000,000, began the allotment of a second appropriation...
...applied to the Cathedral Chapter forthwith for stained glass commissions, was investigated, put in charge of all the Cathedral's glass. Drawing on his exhaustive theoretical knowledge, Lawrence Saint tried to construct an oil-pressure glass furnace at Huntingdon Valley, got nothing more than a sinister blast of smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder...
...City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning of the two-ton Washington statue...