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...Australians . . . have . . . in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with the U. S." On the whole this is rather true of their press, politicians and local businessmen in their public expressions. However, this attitude is mostly but another example of world-wide poor sales- manship by countries down to individuals in destructively criticizing outsiders and their products in an effort to increase the sale of home-made products...
John R. Macomber, whom Mr. McGregor succeeded, went into the chair- manship. Sportsman Macomber last week collected $125,000 fire insurance on Raceland, his home and track in Framingham Centre, Mass., announced he will rebuild. He is directly interested in the Boston Herald and Traveler...
...Long-self-styled "Kaiser" of Louisiana-of drunkenness and consorting with criminals. The following month Governor Long was impeached by the House of Representatives on one of 19 charges for having "attempted to suppress the freedom of the press" by threatening to expose the fact that Editor Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge State Times had a brother in an insane asylum. But Governor Long, supported by the State Senate, was never tried. Fortnight ago Col. Ewing (onetime Long supporter), incensed when the Governor had forced New Orleans banks to discontinue their municipal loans because the city would...
...vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with it in scope and quality- some 546 pieces were shown by such famed artisans as Robert Aitken, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Stirling Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied...
...conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound-escorted Diana and Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked and fascinated as before the portrait sculpture of Jo Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above...