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...These are harsh words, Sir Henri," said, last week, the U. S. petroleum industry...
...Tsar, inasmuch as Great Man's influence, presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...
...last week, pausing in Manhattan en route to Chicago, Sir Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...
...Henri Bergson", Professor Morize, Sever...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...