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¶ In Manhattan Mrs. Roosevelt visited the studio of Ellen Emmet Rand who was engaged last summer to paint the official portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be left hanging in the White House after his departure. In Washington and Hyde Park, Mrs. Rand did her job. Said she: "The...
The Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working...
When William Bishop Warner and Lionel J. Noah became masters of American Woolen Co. in 1930, the company had lost $10,000,000 in three years and stockholders had actually thought of giving up. Dividends on common stock had ceased in 1924. Wool prices had fallen from $1.55 in 1925...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had...
Last spring they issued a terse, tight-lipped announcement that they had completed actual measurements, would need six months to check their data, iron out some unaccountable variations. In the Pease-Pearson report last week the variations, up to 12 mi. per sec., were stunningly unaccounted for, were apparently real...