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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keen, tactful President-elect Fraser sprouted and matured amid the rich mess of Reparations and War Debts. Prior to the War he had been elaborately educated, made up for that by reporting one year for the New York World, next year was admitted to the bar. Enlisting as a private in 1917, he was swiftly promoted to major, and Assistant Judge Advocate of the A. E. F.'s quarrelsome Service of Supply. Decorated with a chestload of Allied medals, he practiced international law with Paris' Coudert Brothers after the War and sprouted definitely in 1924 as general counsel...
Thus ended the last completely commercial job ever held by Maurice Sterne. He had executed his first commissioned painting a few weeks prior: a portrait of a gigantic stein of beer, overflowing, above the device 5?. Last week the Museum of Modern Art gave Maurice Sterne its first one-man show for a living U. S. artist, one of the most complete reviews of an artist's work ever held in Manhattan. On three floors some 200 separate drawings, paintings, bits of sculpture showed the progress of 30 years' work. Maurice Sterne has never been a headliner...
...success of the new plan is illustrated in the increased number of cases handled during the period covered by the report. From April 1, when it ordinarily discontinued its business to September 30 it handled 405 cases last year as compared with the six month period just prior to that. Comparing the totals it was found that the Burean had taken care of 294 cases in 1930-1931 as compared with...
Painter Robinson was born in Westbrook, Me., home town of Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée, whom she has never met. Student at the Boston Museum at the age of 17, she was one of few girls to complete the late Instructor Philip Leslie Hale's notoriously stiff anatomy course. In New York, generally working with Dr. Roland Grausman, she has specialized in sketches of diseased bronchial tracts. But Miss Robinson has her softer side...
...whole has been such as to give us a clearer idea of the effects of the now arrangement upon undergraduate life from both the educational land social points of view. The living and eating conditions of about 1700 upper classmen have been improved as compared with the situation existing prior to 1930. The libraries have been used to the fullest extent. A more suitable environment has been provided for the carrying on of tutorial work, since the majority of students are assigned to tutors attached to their respective Houses...