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...farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground for a stadium where symphony concerts will be given through July and August...
President Roosevelt pushed his conversations on the World Economic Conference into new ground last week. Argentina, Italy and Germany had their White House innings. Dr. Tomas A. Le Breton, Argentine Ambassador to France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers...
...large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness of the New England diarists the student of Cape Breton meteorology will find in these journals, a wealth of information on the wind, weather, and rainfall for the duration...
Spitting on their hands, 600 brawny Breton & Norman shipwrights rushed out to the launching ways, took their stations and stood ready to pull the wedges. The stupendous hull (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall) had been anointed with 43 tons of tallow, two-and-one-half tons of lard and more than a ton of soap. The grease alone cost 150,000 francs...
...painters of this new movement, Joan Miro has been the representative of Surrealisme in this country up to the present, and this is an unfortunate fact, as Miro paints in the manner of the earlier men who were subservient to Freud and the dictates of psychoanalysis. In literature Andre Breton was the theoretician of the school, and Louis Aragon the foremost poet and writer, perhaps the best of the younger French writers today...