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Franklin Roosevelt began last week by driving out to his front gate to look with interest on the newest thing in antiaircraft guns as the motorized 67th Coast Artillery passed through Hyde Park. He closed the week by welcoming at his mother's house the People's Mandate Committee and listening with interest to its plea for Peace. But only two problems took much of his time out of his week of fun. One was Drought, the other Politics...
...Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923, that he has a "non-Aryan"' wife. Lately, however, Adolf Hitler has decided that his 1923 failure was a good idea. Last week General von Seeckt turned 70 and Adolf Hitler named him honorary commander of the 67th Infantry Regiment, to be called henceforth the General von Seeckt Regiment...
...days later Japan's precise-mannered young Emperor Hirohito. who does not like such openly greedy talk, drove in panoplied procession from his palace to the dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...
...East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...quench an ovation is to tug at the concertmaster's sleeve, an order for the musicians to leave the stage. But though the players filed out quickly last week the audience refused to leave until Toscanini came back, shyly accepted their cheers and bravos. It was his 67th birthday and he had let the day be advertised for the sake of the Philharmonic-Symphony's campaign for money. But at speechmaking he drew the line. "I talk with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne...