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Same day at Lüneberg Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, most anti-Christian Nazi bigwig, flatly and loudly restated the crux of the holy war: "National Socialism has won the right to take the education of German youth for all eternity under its control...
...unexpected sunshine after days and days of heavy rain. Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, climbed into a big motor launch, chugged two miles down the Seine and up again accompanied by Premier Leon Blum, many a foreign ambassador and other bigwig. The party then hastened to the colonnaded Grand Palais and thus was inaugurated last week the Paris Exposition, originally scheduled to open...
...grey and graceful little Special Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis manages to stay optimistic and well-liked year after year on his patient rounds of a Europe now fast deteriorating into strife. In London last week he was back in the game of Conference. Twenty-two nations had sent bigwig delegations to what was technically a meeting of the Sugar section of the World Economic Conference of 1933 which technically is still in an "adjournment." Away back when it used to meet, the name of James Ramsay MacDonald still rang big, and last week this hoary Scot was again...
...night entertainments featured the political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...
Last week when the Chronicle inaugurated Mrs. O'Connor's bureau, every bigwig from Mayor Angelo J. Rossi down had a good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...