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...Barnes had an idea. The one living painter for whom he could do nothing was in the U. S. as a juryman for the Carnegie International Exhibition (in Pittsburgh): Henri Matisse, greatest survivor of the Post-Impressionists.∙ Matisse is famed, rich, old (63). The climax piece of any modern collection would be a mural done especially by Matisse. He had done no decorative figure in action since 1910. His only two murals hang in Moscow. Dr. Barnes asked Matisse whether he wanted the job. Matisse did. In 1930 he went to work in his Nice studio...
...Inspector General Maxima Weygand asked the Supreme Council of National Defense to extend the period of compulsory military service from a year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
...throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...
Europe's best known oil tycoon is potent, mysterious Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell. As far as the British Government is concerned, Europe's most useful oil tycoon is brisk, smooth-faced Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., and an associate of Sir Henri's in distributing oil in the Orient...
...Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell and some economists argue that if the value of silver increases. India and China with their silver wealth will have greatly increased purchasing power. All of which is true, but others ask, "What will happen to the price of silver if India and China dump in the market some of their hoarded billions?" Hard times in the hinterlands have already brought silver back to the bazaars. The stock of silver at Shanghai reached the unheard of total of 322,000,000 oz. What will happen if the biggest buyers become the biggest sellers...