Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...They think they perceive in the attitude of President Hoover proof that he is no longer at odds with the Morgan group that opposed his nomination...
...above those of Standard of California, about equal to Standard of Indiana, but below Standard of New Jersey. The two companies would distribute petroleum products equal to about 9% of the total U. S. consumption. Especially potent would be the new combination in battling the Royal Dutch-Shell group which has been engaged in combat with Standard of New York both here and abroad...
...show the development of the pianoforte of the past, present, future. It began with the 1750 period and the harpsichord; the instrument played was an exact model of Handel's and Beethoven's, with plectrums made of real crows' quills and leather. Then came a group for the modern grand piano which differs from the harpsichord in that it has padded hammers which produce tones by striking (rather than plucking at) tightly stretched metal strings...
...months ago a group of New York art patrons, chafing at the timorous pedantry of the Metropolitan Museum's painting department, dug down into their pockets, hired a suite of rooms in Heckscher Building, and opened the Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Sept. 16). The public responded. For the past month 1,500 people a day have trooped through the little museum, trod on each other's feet, peered over each other's shoulders at Derains, Picassos, Chiricos, Matisses. The Heckscher Building's elevators, already crowded, bulged with Modern Art lovers to the annoyance of other...
...past years if one was an authority on philately, owned an outstanding stamp collection, he had only the value of his albums and the knowledge of his own virtue to console him. To correct this condition a group of Chicago stamp lovers met recently, subscribed the sum of $3,000, the income of which was to award two medals annually: one to the owner of the most important stamp collection of the year, the other to the author of the year's most important contribution to philatelic knowledge, both medals to be memorials to the late Charles E. Severn...