Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tousled old Painter John Sloan, still a lively experimentalist at 69, produced his explanation of why art is dear. Because "people consume our product without buying it," he moaned, "an artist has to pay a good deal of rent to have a nice place to store his unsold paintings...
Nazigogue Alfred Rosenberg mounted to the speaker's chair in the French Chamber of Deputies, and, addressing a Nazi gathering, acknowledged his "deep inner satisfaction at speaking from this place," proclaimed: "This thirty years' war between blood and gold in Europe will end with the victory of blood...
...Lord Rothermere retired as chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., turned the management of his properties over to young Esmond. Three years ago he gave up business completely. Last spring the man who took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with...
...finely trained that only the hot lashes of the little Maestro could hold them in line. When in 1936 Maestro Toscanini stepped down from the Philharmonic's podium,* the Philharmonic's board of directors were hard put to find a new conductor sufficiently tough to take his place. After some bickering, they compromised on a relatively unknown and inexperienced Britisher: stocky, floppy-haired John Barbirolli...
...sold by disgusted broker-owners for $33,000 each, lowest price since 1899. Even in 1933, Wall Streeters paid up to $250,000 for seats. But by last week, the 26th of U. S. industry's post-Flanders upward trend, it looked as though Wall Street was one place in the U. S. where the defense program was definitely depressing...