Art: Form of Forms

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Last week Mr. Frederick Hudson Ecker, Chairman of the Board of great Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., made history of a particularly significant kind. Metropolitan Life, Mr. Ecker announced, has acquired 120 acres in The Bronx and will, during the next three years, erect thereon the largest Metropolitan low-cost housing unit in the U. S. (see p. 66). Mr. Ecker was not aware of it, but when he uncorked this bit of news its healthy pop! gave added point and timeliness to a book which literate U. S. citizens and their...

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